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One million babies could be saved every year with these ‘shockingly’ simple measures.

VISHWAM SANKARAN

Scientists have found eight simple, low-cost interventions that could help pregnant people across the world prevent nearly a million stillbirths every year.

The interventions can particularly help pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) prevent an estimated 566,000 stillbirths and 5.2 million babies a year from being born preterm or small with low birth weight, said researchers, including those from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. AOL.

These eight interventions include the use of aspirin, nutrient supplements, balanced protein supplements, the treatment of syphilis, education for smoking cessation, prevention of malaria in pregnancy, providing progesterone vaginally and the treatment of an asymptomatic bacterial infection.