Newborn deaths reduce by 1.3 million in two decades but will take Africa 150 years to reach US/UK newborn survival levels – Study

Angola, Chad, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Sierra Leone

The first week of life is considered as the riskiest week for newborns but yet many countries are only just beginning postnatal care programmes to reach mothers and babies at this critical time

Innovating to improve women’s and children’s health

India

For less than $100, poor, pregnant women in India can now give birth in a private hospital focusing on low-income families, with comparable quality to expensive, private ones. This is an alternative to overcrowded, poorly staffed government-funded hospitals

India: Overburdened hospitals in Orissa fail to deliver

India

Plan to upgrade PHCs have failed, increasing burden on district hospitals manifold

A Sensor can help save a baby

All babies should be routinely screened at birth for life-threatening heart defects using a simple and painless test

Childbirth: Neonatal Deaths Slow, but U.S Still Lags

A study published in the August issue of PLoS Medicine reports that neonatal death rates in the United States have decreased over the period, but at a slower rate than in 117 other countries.

Children Five Times More Likely to Die in Countries Hit by Health Worker Crisis, Save the Children Finds

Chad, Somalia

A new index by Save the Children has ranked the best and worst countries for a child to fall sick in — with Chad and Somalia at the bottom and Switzerland and Finland at the top.  The bottom-ranked countries on the new index have extreme health worker shortages.

Neonatal Deaths haunt SA

South Africa

Neonatal care does not receive enough attention from the health sector, despite ongoing media coverage of infant mortality cases.

Newborn deaths put millennium development goal under threat

As more older children survive, slower progress in cutting death rates among babies in the first weeks of life is putting the goal of reducing child deaths by two-thirds in jeopardy

Study shows newborn deaths higher in US than in Malaysia and Poland, on par with Qatar

Pediatrician Dr. Joy Lawn credits a quick-thinking midwife with saving her life when she was born in northern Uganda more than four decades ago.

Global study finds newborns struggle to survive

Newborn survival is being left behind despite well-documented, cost-effective solutions to prevent these deaths.