Saving Newborn Lives Newborn Health Program: An Overview The Newborn Health Program is an 11-year project supported by grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. It aims to reduce newborn deaths and improve newborn survival in high-mortality countries. To date, the program has helped save the lives of millions of newborns, reaching more than 20 million mothers and babies with critical health services. Program partners include governments and communities in Ethiopia, Ghana, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Nepal, Pakistan, Vietnam, Bolivia and Guatemala.  Learn more. Newborn Health: Opportunities and Resources Overall child mortality rates have dropped in the past decade, but newborns around the world continue to die at alarmingly high rates — nearly 4 million die every year. But there is hope. Opportunities exist to curb these death rates dramatically using inexpensive, practical health interventions.  Programs delivering such interventions could reduce newborn deaths by 60 percent each year. This means that the achievement of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goal 4 — a 2/3 reduction in the number of children who die from preventable and treatable causes by the year 2015 — is within reach.   Read more and find technical resources here.