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Maternal, Newborn, and Reproductive Health
Each year, nearly 2.6 million children die within the first 28 days of life, nearly one third of these deaths occur on the first day of life. An additional 2.6 million babies are stillborn. A further 290,000 women die each year of complications related to pregnancy and childbirth. The vast majority of these deaths can be prevented through the delivery of a targeted set of proven interventions. Unfortunately, these lifesaving interventions are not reaching those most in need.
Save the Children's MNRH work aims to increase access to three lifesaving service packages: (a) family planning and reproductive health, (b) antenatal care, and (c) labour, delivery and maternal and newborn care and Postnatal/Postpartum Care
Family Planning: Save the Children’s family planning and reproductive health work focuses on improving access to quality contraceptive services, the promotion of healthy timing and spacing of pregnancies, and the expansion of youth-friendly sexual and reproductive health services, particularly for underserved populations.
Antenatal Care: Save the Children’s antenatal care work focusses on expanding access to the World Health Organization’s focused antenatal care package, including the delivery of the tetanus toxoid vaccine, iron/folic acid supplementation, the prevention and treatment of malaria during pregnancy, and the prevention and treatment of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections, to ensure positive pregnancy experience for women and their family.
Labour, Delivery and maternal newborn care during postnatal/postpartum: Save the Children labor and delivery work focusses on ensuring skilled care at birth, basic newborn care, management of maternal complications through strengthening Basic Emergency and Newborn Obstetric care, neonatal resuscitation, treatment of severe newborn infections, supportive care for sick and small newborns, the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and care to both mother and newborn during the postpartum/postnatal period
The organization works with governments, UN agencies, civil society and communities through a health systems approach to expand access to these services, and to promote the adoption of healthy maternal, reproductive and newborn care practices.
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Family Planning and Postabortion Care in Emergencies in Somalia
This fact sheet provides details on Save the Children's family planning and postabortion care programming in Somalia.
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Family Planning and Postabortion Care in Emergencies in Yemen
This fact sheet provides details on Save the Children's family planning and postabortion care programming in Yemen.
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Family Planning and Postabortion Care in Emergencies in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
This fact sheet provides details on Save the Children's family planning and postabortion care programming in eastern DRC.
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Family Planning and Postabortion Care in Emergencies in Pakistan
This fact sheet provides details on Save the Children's family planning and postabortion care programming in Pakistan.
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The Korera Korè Community Action Group Mobilizes Pregnant Women to go to the Community Health Center for Maternity Services
To address the underutilization of health services offered at the Korera Kore community health center, the USAID-funded Services de Santé à Grand Impact (SSGI) helped with the setup of a community action group in April 2018. This group, made up of represe
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Family Planning and Postabortion Care in Emergencies in Bangladesh
This fact sheet provides details about Save the Children's reproductive health programming for Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.
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Family Planning and Postabortion Care in Emergencies in Syria
This fact sheet provides details on Save the Children's family planning and postabortion care programming in Syria.
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Roadmap to Accelerate Progress for Every Newborn in Humanitarian Settings 2020-2025
This document sets out a vision for how improvements could be made for mothers and newborns in humanitarian settings. The audience for this roadmap includes stakeholders from both the development and humanitarian communities, including maternal and newbor
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Religious Leaders' Handbook on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
Developed as a tool for religious leaders, this handbook assists the reader in understanding and addressing sexual and reproductive health and rights issues among children and adolescents. After a pilot session in Lusaka, Zambia, in November 2017 at a reg
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Using research priority-setting to guide bridging the implementation gap in countries: A case study of the Uganda newborn research priorities in the SDG era
One of the greatest challenges that countries face regarding the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) targets for child health involve the actions required to improve neonatal health; these interventions have to be informed by evidence. I
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Integrating Infant and Young Child Feeding and Family Planning in Emergencies
Effective family planning (FP) and infant and young child feeding (IYCF) programs in humanitarian settings are essential to protect, promote and support the health and well-being of women, newborns and children. This brief describes Save the Children's ef
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Family Planning and Postabortion Care in Uganda
This fact sheet provides details about Save the Children's reproductive health programming for South Sudanese refugees in Uganda.