Save the Children's Saving Newborn Lives program, supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, works in partnership with countries to reduce newborn mortality and improve newborn health.
Newborn Health: The Issue
In many communities around the world, children are not named until they survive the first month of life (the neonatal, or newborn, period). Among all children, newborns have the highest risk of death. More than 40 percent of deaths in children under five occur in the first month of life. Each year, 3.1 million newborns die around the world, and 2.6 million babies are stillborn.
Find out why newborns are at dying and what simple and affordable solutions can save newborn lives.
SNL: What We Do
For more than a decade, Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives (SNL) program — a globally recognized leader in newborn health and respected voice in countries — has sought to reach the world’s most vulnerable newborns and help them survive the first month of life. Since 2000, SNL has worked to put newborn health on the global map, catalyzing governments, multilateral and bilateral agencies, non-governmental organizations, research institutions and professional associations to reduce newborn deaths.
Efforts to improve newborn health are working. SNL has made significant progress for newborn survival, increasing commitment and action at global and national levels, mobilizing resources for newborn health, and placing the newborn on global and national agendas.
See what a difference a trained midwife can make! Travel to Nigeria to watch the stories of an amazing woman in the videos above. Learn why Save the Children and the International Confederation of Midwives has honored Catherine with this year’s ICM Save the Children Every One Midwife Award. Read the press release.
Training more frontline health workers is the best way to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths around the world. Learn more and get involved here.
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In fiscal year 2011, 89.1% of all expenditures, including donated media, went to program services. Without donated media, program expenditures would average 90.7%. Percentages are an average of our programs worldwide; the percentage spent in any particular program may vary.
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