{"id":4150,"date":"2019-06-21T23:17:33","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T23:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2019-07-01T23:43:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-01T23:43:59","slug":"what-strategies-save-our-poorest-childrens-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/2019\/06\/21\/what-strategies-save-our-poorest-childrens-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"What Strategies Save Our Poorest Children&#8217;s Lives?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"975\" height=\"725\" src=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/muso.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/muso.jpg 975w, https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/muso-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/muso-768x571.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 975px) 100vw, 975px\" \/><figcaption>In only three-years, the Muso project witnessed dramatic gains in child health<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In Mali, a desert nation in West Africa, preschool children frequently  become ill and die from pneumonia and diarrhea. Into this despairing situation came <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musohealth.org\/the-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Project Muso (opens in a new tab)\">Project Muso<\/a> to solve root causes of health problems. The Project supplies education, community organizing capabilities, and management skills to enable community members to overcome the conditions of poverty that <em>cause<\/em> disease.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>The\nsuccess of this project has been remarkable. The service population area in\nMali covered approximately 11,000 children under the age of five. At the start\nof the project<ins>,<\/ins> the rate of child mortality was\n155\/1000 births. Just three years later, the rate of child mortality had\ndropped by almost ten-fold<ins>,<\/ins> to 17\/1000. <\/p>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For newborns, the issue of timing is especially critical. Significant improvements in newborn survival can be anticipated when a system ensures that women reach a suitable birth center for delivery. A suitable birth center is one where<ins>:<\/ins> skilled care is available at every birth, premature infants can be supported properly, and sick newborns in the community can be identified and provided with care rapidly. Best practice stories<ins>,<\/ins> such as Project Muso<ins>,<\/ins> offer great hope. We are capable of better protecting the most vulnerable children on the planet. One community health worker put it this way<ins>:<\/ins> \u201cOpportunity is like being pregnant with success for the health of mothers and children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Mali, a desert nation in West Africa, preschool children frequently become ill and die from pneumonia and diarrhea. Into this despairing situation came Project Muso to solve root causes of health problems. The Project supplies education, community organizing capabilities, and management skills to enable community members to overcome the conditions of poverty that cause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-public-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inmedblogs.us\/nicholascomninellis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}