Kenya: Targeting the causes of perinatal mortality in a Kenyan hospital

Out of every hundred births, seven newborn babies do not survive the first week of life in Africa. In developed countries only 1% of babies die during this period. The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, together with the Kenya Medical Research Institute, studied the maternity ward of a rural Kenyan hospital to find the causes of perinatal mortality, that is, stillbirth or death in the first week of life.