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28 May 2024

Stronger together: Main Belgian associations launch the Zero Separation Coalition

Guest article by Michel Collart, Noah's Ark Belgium. Extra boost in May: Noah’s Ark Belgium convinced  partner associations VVOC, Cokoen and Odisee to promote Zero Separation. Mid-May the coalition held...
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28 May 2024

NGO Prematuridade.com lauches a National Intersectoral Plan dedicated to the cause of prematurity in Brazil

Guest article by Denise Suguitani, founder and Executive Director of ONG Prematuridade, our partner parent organisation in Brazil.   In the year in which it celebrates ten years of work...
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07 May 2024

Survey: Adults born preterm with respiratory dysfunction

Calling all adults born preterm: Help us shape the future of prematurity research! EFCNI recently joined a project called “EMPOWER: Real-world patient research in prematurity and respiratory diseases” by Chiesi,...
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29 April 2024

EFCNI auf der GNPI (2024)

EFCNI auf der GNPI Heimspiel in München bei der 50. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Neonatologie und Pädiatrische Intensivmedizin (GNPI) mit einem bunten und breit gefächerten Programm (see English article below)...
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26 March 2024

Guaranteed by the state: Empowering families to know and exercise their rights

Guest article by Oleksandra Balyasna, Head of  partner parent organisation "Early Birds" in Ukraine and member of the EFCNI Parent and Patient Advisory Board. Knowing your rights guaranteed and provided...
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25 March 2024

Making skin-to-skin care a reality for families in need with “ConTact”

Guest article by Professor Concepción Gómez Esteban, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain, and President of APREM, one of EFCNI’s esteemed partner parent organisations in Spain. In 2022, APREM initiated an innovative...
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20 March 2024

Neonatal care through the ages: The impressive journey of infant and family-centred developmental care in Denmark

A guest article by Sarah Fügenschuh When we imagine modern neonatal care, in industrialised nations in particular, we might think of Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs) equipped with state-of-the-art technical...
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26 February 2024

Development of a WHO Core Outcome Set (COS) for maternal and perinatal health for the next epidemic or pandemic: involvement of EFCNI in the process

EFCNI contributes to efforts by the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop a Core Outcome Set (COS) for maternal and perinatal health in anticipation of future epidemics or pandemics. Joining...
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30 January 2024

Putting the preterm infant in the centre of all care: Impressions from Erasmus Hospital, Brussels

Guest article by Lívia Nagy Bonnard, founding member of “Melletted a helyem Egyesület” – “Right(s) Beside You Association” in English – and a member of the Parent, Patient and Public...
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29 November 2023

Know the facts in a world full of infectious respiratory viruses

  Explore our corporate partner AstraZeneca's new one-stop web resource for respiratory virus knowledge and try the symptom comparator right away. It's that time of year again when coughs and...
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