Hello, I would like to ask if health professionals from Africa, Asia and other regions are permitted to join NICU99.

I am responsible for a non-clinical global health forum called CHILD2015 (hifa2015.org/child2015-forum) and our members are looking for ways in which they can get clinical advice on newborn care.

Best wishes,

Neil

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Dear Neil,
anyone working with neonatal care, regardless of context, is welcome to register for a membership. We already have a stock of members with quite different backgrounds, some working in very resource-rich settings, while others need to rely on scarce resources. So, please feel free to spread the word about 99nicu.org within your network

One idea that comes to my mind is whether there is a need for a new dedicated forum for discussions about neonatal care in low-resource settings.
Or maybe the current forums are sufficient. Just as an example, if someone would like to discuss the Helping babies breathe-initiative, such a topic (depending on aspect) would suit well in the forums for Education, Pulmonology or Technical equipment.

Do I understand it correctly that your own forum is basically an email list service?

"anyone working with neonatal care, regardless of context, is welcome to register for a membership. We already have a stock of members with quite different backgrounds, some working in very resource-rich settings, while others need to rely on scarce resources. So, please feel free to spread the word about 99nicu.org within your network :)"

Fantastic, thank you. May I forward this message to them? Or, would you like to join CHILD2015 yourself and do so (www.hifa2015.org/child2015-forum )



"One idea that comes to my mind is whether there is a need for a new dedicated forum for discussions about neonatal care in low-resource settings.
Or maybe the current forums are sufficient. Just as an example, if someone would like to discuss the Helping babies breathe-initiative, such a topic (depending on aspect) would suit well in the forums for Education, Pulmonology or Technical equipment."

Yes, indeed. I think in the first place it would be valuable to spread the word about the existing forums. I note that the "neonatology in developing countries" currently has 42 members. I would see this potentially grow to 400 or even 4000.

"Do I understand it correctly that your own forum is basically an email list service?"

It is an email discussion forum, involving child health professionals, publishers, researchers, policymakers - our discussions are about how to meet the information and learning needs of child health professionals and citizens with regards to care of children. We also include child health rights in our discussions. Our discussions are generally about where and how to get information, and different methods of providing information (eg health education, mobile phones). We are not a clinical forum. Some of our members were wondering if we should start a clinical forum, but we suggested it makes more sense to find our what already exists, and build on this. It would be great to explore possibilities for collaboration between CHILD2015 and NICU99 - we are highly complementary.

Best wishes,
Neil Pakenham-Walsh
HIFA moderator; CHILD2015 moderator

Hi again!

I just wanted to get back - as you probably have noticed we have switched the web site has been re-designed (and a new software).

As before, the forums will be the core of 99nicu.org.

 

Unfortunately the Social Group feature had to go as that is not a feature available in the current/new software we use.

 

However, I think that forums, the chat service and blogs might well be good for you to use.

 

One advantage with a dedidacted category/forum would be that we can set up a dedicated newsletter from that specific forum, in you would believe that would be a good feature for your group.

Just returning from hottopics. There was a good session on global neonatology. The helping-babies-breathe initiative was described in some detail. Seems like they have really made strides in helping that neonates in middle and low income countries receive better perinatal care.

 

For more information look up:

http://www.helpingbabiesbreathe.org/