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Vanuatu First 1,000 Days Project: Baseline Report
Save the Children is implementing the First 1,000 Days project, which aims to reduce stunting among children under five years of age by improving maternal and child nutrition practices in 33 communities across Shefa, Sanma, and Penama Provinces. This hous
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Vanuatu First 1,000 Days Project: Barrier Analysis Report
Save the Children in Vanuatu is implementing the First 1,000 Days project, which aims to reduce stunting among children under five by improving maternal and child health and nutrition practices in 33 communities across Shefa, Sanma, and Penama Provinces.
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Evaluation du Programme Signature de Sante en RDC, En Utilisant le MAA: Rapport d’évaluation
Save the Children's Health Signature Program in the Democratic Republic of Congo was designed in 2013 to join up solutions along the ‘continuum of care’, from late pregnancy to early childhood, covering all postpartum and neonatal stages, in deprived comm
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Save the Children Global Nutrition Factsheet 2018
The global Nutrition factsheet summarises Save the Children's nutrition approach, advocacy, programming and research work around the world for 2018. It also includes links to recent Save the Children publications. School, Health and Nutrition (SHN)
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Global Health HIV, AIDS and TB Fact Sheet
Each day in 2016, over 1,100 children and adolescents (age 0 19) around the world became infected with HIV. Ninety percent of them contracted the virus through transmission from their mothers. If early diagnosis and treatment do not occur, one- third of H
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Air Pollution and Child Health: Prescribing clean air
This report, published by the World Health Organization (WHO), summarizes the latest scientific data and knowledge on the connections between air pollution exposure and adverse impact on child health. Air pollution causes over seven million premature deat
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Spotlight on Rwanda
Rwanda is one of the few sub-Saharan African countries on track to achieve MDGs 4 and 5. Child mortality fell rapidly between 2000 and 2013 from 182 to 52 deaths per 1,000 live births. Maternal mortality fell from 1,000 deaths to 320 per 100,000 live birt
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Signature Programme in DRC: The difference we've made
Save the Children's Health Signature Program in the Democratic Republic of Congo was designed in 2013 to join up solutions along the ‘continuum of care’, from late pregnancy to early childhood, covering all postpartum and neonatal stages, in deprived comm
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Fiocchi in Ospedale 2012-2018: Da un progetto pilota a una comunità di pratiche
This report covers six years of the Fiocchi in Ospedale project. The project is today present in eight hospitals across Italy. Six years have passed since the first experiment, carried out in the Niguarda hospitals of Milan, Policlinico di Bari and Carda
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Effects of a Violence Prevention Intervention in Schools and Surrounding Communities: Secondary analysis of a cluster randomised-controlled trial in Uganda
The Good School Toolkit is effective in reducing staff violence against children in Ugandan primary schools. A secondary analysis of cluster-randomised trial data was conducted to investigate intervention effects on school operational culture, and on norm
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Costruire una Comunità du Cura: Schede di Lavoro
This is a report on the activities of the "Fiocchi in Ospedale" and "Spazio Mamme" projects, from 2012 until 2018. The main objective of these projects is to strengthen the intervention of actors who fight against children's poverty, particularly between
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Fighting for Breath: A call to action on childhood pneumonia
This report shows that pneumonia, ‘the forgotten child killer,’ is responsible for the deaths of more children under five than any other disease. It kills two children in this age group every minute—more than malaria, diarrhoea, and measles combined. More