Addressing Critical Knowledge Gaps in Newborn Health

Success Stories

Nurse Regina Obeng is the recipient of the first International Neonatal Nursing Excellence Award. Watch her inspiring story.

Nurse Rekha Samant from Mumbai, India is a recipient of the first-ever International Neonatal Nursing Excellence Award. Watch her story.

Midwife Farangis Sultani tells the story of a woman who was in a great deal of pain last winter. The woman was in labor — and her family had brought her to the Shatak village clinic after a three-hour walk on the back of a donkey.

This short video (5:15 min) from the Living Proof Project showcases Female Community Health Volunteers and their successes in Nepal.

Find out how agogos (grandparents) are responsible for passing on tradition. Can they also increase the odds of safe childbirth?

Projahnmo: Generations to Come is a short film about the groundbreaking research study in Bangladesh that reduced newborn deaths by one-third through home-based newborn care. An article on the study received the 2008 Lancet Paper of the Year Award. (4:17 min)

 Projahnmo: Generations to Come is a short film about the groundbreaking research study in Bangladesh that reduced newborn deaths by one-third through home-based newborn care. An article on the study received the 2008 Lancet Paper of the Year Award.

View the GAPPS Video "Tiny Babies. Invisible Deaths."

The BBC World documentary, Invisible Lives, follows Save the Children's Dr. Joy Lawn as she travels to Malawi and Nepal to see how these two countries are addressing their previously  unrecorded, "invisible" burden of newborn deaths. 

Watch Save the Children's newborn health expert Dr Joy Lawn travel to Malawi and Nepal to find out how these two low-income countries are saving newborn lives. Originally aired January 26, 2010 on BBC World.