What is UNEST? Information brief about the Uganda Newborn Survival Study

Summary

Makerere University School of Public Health with support from the Saving Newborn Lives Project of Save the Children (USA), through a grant from Bill Gates Foundation is conducting a cluster randomised study in the Iganga/Mayuge Health Demographic Surveillance Site (HDSS) in Iganga and Mayuge Districts. The aim of UNEST is to develop and cost an integrated maternal-newborn care package that links community and facility care and evaluate its effect on maternal and neonatal outcomes in order to inform policy and scale up in Uganda.