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Increasing Supervised Births For Women In Papua New Guinea Through The Baby Bundle Initiative, Simeon Adiunegiya

English Language Institute

Papua New Guinea’s high maternal death rate is closely related to high rate of unsupervised village deliveries, and is of grave public health concern. But to turn this around, women must be encourage to come to a health facility to deliver their babies. The baby bundle initiative is making significant progress in increasing supervised births for women in PNG’s Milne Bay Province.