Newborn Infection Control and Care Initiative for Health Facilities to Accelerate Reduction of Newborn Mortality (NICCI)
Neonatal Infection
About this trial
This is an interventional prevention trial for Neonatal Infection focused on measuring Newborn, infection, community health
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Health Centers: historically, a health center which providing services for more than 20 births per month
- Individuals: women in the last trimester of pregnancy with any ethnicity, age is equal or older than 18 years, and pregnancy results in a live birth.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Birth of baby with known congenital malformation
- Inability to obtain informed consent or adhere to protocol
Sites / Locations
- Selected Health Centers and Villages Under the Health Centers
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Experimental
No Intervention
Improve infection control in health centers; improve home hygiene; improve newborn danger signs recognition by the HC staff, VHSG, and mothers; and improve care coordination between community and health facilities. The above improvements will be through the training of health center staff and VHSG; HC staff and VHSG provide health education to mothers at the health centers and at home respectively; and provide supportive supervision to both HC and VHSG. VHSG will conduct three home visits to the mothers/newborns on the first 24 hours, the 3rd day, and the 7th day after delivery.
We do not make any interventions.