Calling all members: Please share your tools for community case management of newborn sepsis!

The Newborn Sepsis Working Group, led by colleagues from MCHIP, Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives program, USAID, and Johns Hopkins University, is commissioning the development of an implementation guide for community case management of sepsis in the newborn and young infant, age 1-59 days.

We would like to include an annotated list of tools that have been developed for community identification and management of sepsis. This would include a wide variety of materials:

• Behavior Change Communication
• Training (training needs assessments; curricula; checklists, TOT materials, etc)
• Supervisory tools
• Community Health Worker tools (such as flip charts and records)
• Lists of standard supplies, equipment and Rx
• Treatment guidelines and algorithms
• Rreferral slips
• HC registers
• And more...

We are reaching out to you, the newborn health community, to ask for your help in identifying and submitting existing tools that will build a library of tools on the Healthy Newborn Network. This will also complement the implementation guide, due to be released in the coming months.

Click here to send us your tools!

Learn more:

• Neonatal Sepsis: A Major Global Public Health Challenge
• New Approaches to Preventing, Diagnosing, and Treating Neonatal Sepsis
• Management of Newborn Infections in Primary Care Settings: A Review of the Evidence and Implications for Policy?