developing world. Authorities agree that in most resource
poor areas—those places with inadequate facilities, equipment,
and trained providers—reliable data and information that
distinguishes between stillbirth and neonatal death are not
generally available and that clinical and research efforts should
be directed at both.
3,4
Although the stillbirth population in the
resource-limited perinatal population is inadequately studied, it
is apparent that a portion of stillbirths occur in late labor and
delivery, are related to hypoxia, and may in fact not be stillbirths
at all but babies who would respond to resuscitation efforts if
recognized as such and survive if they received clinical
intervention by providers skilled in resuscitation and subse-
quent care.