Poor adherence: those who missed their ART dose more than 10% per month.
Fair adherence: those who missed 5–10% of their ART doses.
Good adherence: those who missed less than 5% of their ART doses.
Mother-to-mother (M2M) support program: a peer support program which employs HIV-positive mothers to provide support and advice to HIV-positive pregnant women and mothers of HIV-exposed babies.
Option B+: the program that utilizes initiating triple ARV drugs for all pregnant HIV positive mothers and continues throughout their life.
ARV prophylaxis: the administration of ARV drugs to a newborn without documented HIV infection to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition.
17 neonatal abnormality, skin-to-skin contact and bathing within 24 hrs.
18 Behavioral factors like inappropriate thermal resuscitation appliance and clothing,
6,19 no wearing cap and no warm intra-facility transportation
10 are among the commonest factors associated with newborn hypothermia.
The trend of neonatal mortality was showing good progress. The 2005 Ethiopian demographic, health survey (EDHS) with Neonatal mortality rate (NMR) of 39, 2011 EDHS with NMR of 37 to NMR of 29 in the 2016 EDHS.
20 But the 2019 mini EDHS shows that the national NMR becomes 30. This shows that further actions should be taken to improve neonatal survival in Ethiopia.
21 The NMR of Oromiya regional sate was 37, which is higher than the national NMR of 29.