Newborn Care
The Cold Baby
Video from Global Health Media Project
This film shows the baby with a low body temperature: how to examine the baby, warm the baby, and determine if the baby is sick and needs referral (or, in cases where there is no referral option, how to treat ...
6 mins
Home Visit for Mother and Newborn
Video from Global Health Media Project
This film shows the important features of a home visit during the first week of life, integrating care of the baby and mother.
8 mins
The Hot Baby
Video from Global Health Media Project
This film shows the baby with a high body temperature: how to examine the baby, cool the baby, and determine if the baby is sick and needs referral (or, in cases where there is no referral option, how to treat ...
6 mins
Thrush
Video from Global Health Media Project
This film shows what thrush looks like and how to treat it with two options: gentian violet and nystatin.
3 mins
Newborn Physical Exam
Video from Global Health Media Project
This film demonstrates a newborn physical exam. It shows 3 parts: observation, vital signs, and the head-to-toe exam. It also shows normal variations and abnormal findings.
8 mins
Preparing Injectable Medicines
Video from Global Health Media Project
This film shows how to use a dosing guideline and how to prepare and draw up two commonly used antibiotics, ampicillin and gentamicin.
7 mins
Preparing Oral Medicines
Video from Global Health Media Project
This film shows how to use a dosing guideline and how to prepare an oral suspension, along with tips for giving medicine by mouth to a young baby.
8 mins
Referring a Sick Baby
Video from Global Health Media Project
This film shows the essential features of a referral process. It covers involving the family, arranging transport, preparing the baby for the journey, and writing the referral note. It also includes what to do if referral is not an option.
5 mins
Warning Signs in Newborns
Video from Global Health Media Project
This film features 10 major warning signs that will help families with early recognition of serious newborn problems–key to getting timely care and saving babies’ lives.
9 mins
Umbilical Infections
Video from Global Health Media Project
This film shows how to evaluate the baby with an umbilical infection, how to differentiate a mild infection from a severe one, and how to treat the mild case and refer all severe cases to a higher-level facility.
7 mins
Respectful Maternity Care
Video from Medical Aid Films
The film highlights seven points in White Ribbon Alliance’s Universal Rights of Childbearing Women Charter, and will be used as part of a Respectful Maternity Care package developed to ensure engagement and support for healthcare providers to provide Respectful Maternity ...
7 mins
Prevention and Management of PPH
Video from Medical Aid Films
PPH, or excessive bleeding after delivery, accounts for a third of all maternal deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, although it is widely preventable and treatable. This film reinforces how to both prevent and manage a PPH in the most common of ...
22 mins
Neonatal Resuscitation
Video from Medical Aid Films
Birth asphyxia is responsible for a quarter of all perinatal deaths, and immediate care of the newborn is vital to ensuring its survival and ongoing health. This film demonstrates correct delivery and care of a newborn and how to resuscitate ...
20 mins
How to Care for a newborn (full length)
Video from Medical Aid Films
This film teaches the key steps to follow immediately after the delivery of a newborn in case it could not take place at a health centre. It insists on the importance of drying the baby and of early breastfeeding and ...
15 mins
What to do if a newborn is not breathing
Video from Medical Aid Films
This film is a shorter version of the How to care for a newborn full length film featured on this channel. It teaches the key steps to follow immediately after the delivery of a newborn who is not breathing in ...
9 mins
Newborn Care: The first hours after delivery
Video from Medical Aid Films
This film teaches the key steps to follow immediately after the delivery of a newborn in case it could not take place at a health centre, as well as danger signs to look out for in the first few days ...
10 mins
Breastfeeding
Video from Medical Aid Films
Women of child bearing age, infants and young children are the most nutritionally vulnerable. Bringing knowledge of methods to improve diet to both health workers and the communities can save lives and prevent illness and stunting.There are currently 3 films ...
15 mins
What and when to feed your child
Video from Medical Aid Films
Women of child bearing age, infants and young children are the most nutritionally vulnerable. Bringing knowledge of methods to improve diet to both health workers and the communities can save lives and prevent illness and stunting.There are currently 3 films ...
14 mins
Postnatal Care
Course from Digital Campus
This course is designed to teach you the basic information and skills to give immediate postnatal care to the mother and newborn, and to extend the awareness of effective postnatal care to others in the home and in the community ...
20 hours
Nutrition
Course from Digital Campus
This course highlights the importance of a balanced and healthy nutrition as an essential requirement for a healthy and productive life. Achievement of Millennium Development Goal 1 (Eradication of Extreme Poverty and Hunger by 2015) is crucial for socioeconomic progress ...
20 hours
