Exploring newborn survival in India: Call for your expertise!

India accounts for the greatest burden of newborn deaths in the world. An estimated 1.1 million newborns die each year in India, making up 28% of the global burden. A staggering 55% of under-5 deaths in India are newborns, babies less than 28 days old. Currently, India is not on track to achieve its MDG 4 target by the year 2015. However, recent policy developments surrounding home-based newborn care in rural settings have placed India at a crucial stage to save more mothers and newborns in the coming years.

The Healthy Newborn Network (HNN), in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, explores the situation for India’s most vulnerable mothers and babies, and will in August present an online blog series on translating commitments into action for India’s newborns.

Do you work towards newborn survival in India? We want to showcase your expertise!

If you would like your newborn health related resources, content, organizations, projects, networks and/or champions to be featured on the Healthy Newborn Network’s India series, please contact JoAnn Paradis at jparadis@savechildren.org by August 1st, 2011.

Photo: Andy Hall/Save the Children