Breastfeeding
Project Lead(s): Natalia Godoy
Establishing and testing a model for using Kangaroo Method Care to transport preterm and low-weight babies in rural Colombia to avoid hypothermia and hypoglycemia, leading causes of death. Goals include eight training sessions for 54 nurses and doctors at community centers and 7 regional hospitals, as well as 54 nurses and community health workers in satellite primary care centres; a 30% decrease in the number of preterm babies arriving with hypothermia or hypoglycemia.
