Dr. Joy Lawn, Senior Health Advisor at Save the Children and a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, talks with South Africa Broadcasting Corporation about the Global Newborn Health Conference taking place in Johannesburg and South Africa’s efforts to reduce newborn mortality.
3 million newborn babies die before reaching their first month of life. Dr. Lawn discusses how newborn mortality has flatlined in South Africa and more needs to be done to address hospital care for preterm babies.