Save the Children
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About us
Save the Children is the world's leading independent organization for children. Our vision is a world in which every child attains the right to survival, protection, development and participation. Our mission is to inspire breakthroughs in the way the world treats children and to achieve immediate and lasting change in their lives.
Save the Children's Saving Newborn Lives program, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, works in partnership with 18 countries to reduce newborn mortality and improve newborn health.
Saving Newborn Lives works closely with governments and provides direct support to the design, development and implementation of national strategies and policies to improve the quality and availability of care for newborns. SNL supports more than 25 programs and research studies evaluating the most affordable, feasible and effective ways to save newborn lives in low-income settings. Many of the studies evaluate the impact of using existing community health workers to counsel families about newborn care at home and refer them to local health facilities.
Working with UN agencies and academics, Saving Newborn Lives collects and analyzes data on the number and causes of newborn death, both at the global and national level, and works to shed light on previously undocumented and poorly understood areas of newborn mortality, like stillbirths. In addition, Saving Newborn Lives works with countries and other agencies to improve the monitoring of newborn health indicators, such as postnatal care coverage.
Save the Children is a partner of MCHIP, the USAID/Bureau for Global Health’s flagship maternal, neonatal and child health (MNCH) program, which focuses on reducing maternal, neonatal and child mortality, thereby accelerating progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 4 and 5.
Awarded to Jhpiego and partners in September 2008, MCHIP works with USAID missions, governments, nongovernmental organizations, local communities and partner agencies in developing countries to implement programs at scale for sustainable improvements in MNCH.
MCHIP supports USAID's strategic approach by addressing the barriers to accessing and using focused, evidence-based interventions along the MNCH continuum of care from pre-pregnancy to age five, and by linking communities, first-level facilities, and hospitals. MCHIP will promote and support the integration of family planning, malaria, and HIV/AIDS activities within MNCH programs as appropriate. Find MCHIP on HNN.
ACCESS (2004-2009)
The ACCESS Program was a 5-year global program, sponsored by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which aimed to improve the health and survival of mothers and their newborns.
Implemented by Jhpiego in partnership with Save the Children, Constella Futures, the Academy for Educational Development, the American College of Nurse-Midwives and IMA World Health, the ACCESS program worked with USAID missions, governments, nongovernmental organizations, local communities and partner agencies in developing countries to achieve sustainable improvements in maternal and newborn health and survival.
Save the Children Campaigns
As an independent and global organization, Save the Children has a powerful voice in campaigning for long-term change, and a track record of success. Save the Children encourages its supporters to put pressure on decision makers and opinion formers to change policies and practices, locally and globally, to ensure children's rights become reality.
Save the Children has launched a global campaign to provide basic health and nutrition services to millions of children who might not otherwise live to see their fifth birthday – often due to the lack of basic care near their home. Our goal is to ensure that Millennium Development Goal 4 is achieved, and to provide support to MGD 5 by increasing the coverage of proven health services and practices that have a high impact on reducing lives through sustainable government and private health service providers.
Save the Children and the Ad Council teamed up in 2010 to launch the Good Goes campaign, aiming to mobilize U.S. citizens to help local health workers across the world to save more children worldwide. The Good Goes campaign features an interactive website for supporters to learn more about child survival, the role of the local health worker and ways to help.
EVERY ONE is Save the Children’s global campaign to save millions of children’s lives. The campaign aims to ensure that EVERY child will have the chance to live past their fifth birthday. EVERY ONE works with the public, aid agencies, companies and governments to mobilise 60 million people - in rich and poor countries - to push their governments to act.
Reports
The best way to save lives, accelerate progress on global health, and help advance U.S. interests.
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Reports
Resumen ejecutivo de la serie de artículos publicados en The Lancet
Reports
Sommaire exécutif de la série The Lancet
Reports
On September 14-15 2011, a regional gathering of researchers, program planners, and policy makers from Asia reviewed emerging research and program implementation of chlorhexidine for umbilical cord care. Read the meeting report.
Tools/Guidelines
This flipbook contains key messages that pregnant women and their families need in order to plan care of an infant at home right after birth. It focuses on essential actions families can take both to prevent newborn death and illness and to promote healthy newborn development.
Articles
Read the most comprehensive newborn death estimates to date, covering 20 years and 193 countries. Study led by the World Health Organization, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Save the Children.
Reports
Saving Newborn Lives is a health program to save life of the newborn in Garut District, West Java.
Briefs
For over a decade, Save the Children's Saving Newborn Lives program has sought to reach the world's most vulnerable newborns and help them survive the first month of life. Learn about the SNL program.
Reports
The Mothers' Index is highlighted in Save the Children's State of the World's Mothers 2011 report
Articles
The Lancet Series on Stillbirths provides new analysis of the problem and the results of incorporating stillbirths into existing health-system packages for women and babies, with examples of success and missed opportunities especially for the poorest families.
October 18, 2011
Chlorhexidine cord cleasing saves newborn lives
May 3, 2011
Save the Children’s State of the World's Mothers 2011 report reveals Afghanistan to be the world’s worst place to be a mom.
April 1, 2011
Tackling the shortage of midwives to save the lives of mothers and newborns
Newborn News
