WHO Global Position Paper and Implementation Strategy on kangaroo mother care call for fundamental reorganisation of maternal-infant care

Affiliations

• ¹ Prematurity Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA.
• ² Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• ³ Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ⁴ Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria.
• ⁵ Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA.
• ⁶ Institute for Global Health and Development, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan.
• ⁷ Preemie Connect, Johannesburg, South Africa.
• ⁸ Kangaroo Foundation, Bogota, Colombia.
• ⁹ Centre for Health Research and Development, Society for Applied Studies, New Delhi, India.
• ¹⁰ World Bank, Washington, DC, USA.
• ¹¹ Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), Geneva, Switzerland.
• ¹² Ministry of Health, Government of Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi.
• ¹³ Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.
• ¹⁴ FUNDAPREMA, San José, Costa Rica.
• ¹⁵ International Confederation of Midwives, Den Haag, Netherlands.
• ¹⁶ Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, UK Government, London, UK.
• ¹⁷ Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
• ¹⁸ Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation, Oslo, Norway.
• ¹⁹ UNICEF, New York, NY, USA.
• ²⁰ Japan International Cooperation Agency, Tokyo, Japan.
• ²¹ International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, London, UK.
• ²² USAID, Washington, DC, USA.
• ²³ Purmerend, Netherlands.
• ²⁴ Laerdal Foundation, Stavanger, Norway.
• ²⁵ Maternal, Adolescent, Reproductive & Child Health Centre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
• ²⁶ European Foundation for the Care of Newborn Infants (EFCNI), Munich, Germany.
• ²⁷ American Academy of Pediatrics, Washington, DC, USA.
• ²⁸ Médecins Sans Frontières International, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ²⁹ Children's Investment Fund Foundation, London, UK.
• ³⁰ School of Public Health of Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• ³¹ International Pediatric Association, Jakarta, Indonesia.
• ³² Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda.
• ³³ University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• ³⁴ Council of International Neonatal Nurses and University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
• ³⁵ Save the Children, Washington, DC, US.
• ³⁶ Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.