The Global Health eLearning Center is pleased to offer this course on Newborn Sepsis. The course will orient the participant to key issues in the prevention and treatment of neonatal infections, emphasizing recognition and management of bacterial infections at peripheral facilities and in the community, and issues of global public health importance.

This course covers topics such as:

• The importance of newborn infection as a cause of neonatal mortality
  
  
• The risk factors for newborn infection and discuss how neonates acquire infection
  
  
• The differences between a newborn and an older infant with respect to infections, and some of the difficulties in recognizing infection in the newborn
   
• The major strategies for preventing newborn infection
  
  
• Strategies and approaches for the treatment of bacterial infections in the newborn, at peripheral centers and in the community
  
  
• Possible programmatic approaches at the facility and community levels
  
  
• Key program examples for preventing and treating newborn sepsis
  
  

Knowledge for Health Project, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Family Health International(FHI), Management Sciences for Health (MSH), With IT Support from Google.

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