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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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MOMENTUM Country & Global Leadership
This is a program brief for the MOMENTUM Country & Global Leadership (MCGL) Project. MCGL is part of a suite of innovative awards funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to holistically improve family planning and maternal and chil
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Reproductive Health in Emergencies Tablet-Based Supervision System to Improve Competency of Health Care Providers
This brief provides an overview of the Reproductive Health in Emergencies Tablet-Based Supervision System. The tablet-based supervision system allows streamlining supervision systems, prioritization of whom to supervise based on the needs, adapting indivi
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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. Family Planning
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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. Family Planning
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Processus d’autodiagnostic et l’utilisation de la carte scores de la convention d’assistance mutuelle dans le renforcement des capacités des ASACO et CSCOM
This report highlights efforts by the USAID-funded Services de Santé à Grand Impact (SSGI) project in Mali (High-Impact Health Services Project) to measure the effect of Community Health Associations (ASACOs) capacity building and the Mutual Assistance Co
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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. Family Planning
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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. Family Planning
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Contraceptive Use Among Adolescent and Young Women in North and South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A crosssectional population-based survey
This research article analyzes contraceptive use among sexually active young women aged 15-24 in health zones served by Save the Children, CARE, and IRC in conflict-affected North and South Kivu, DRC. Family Planning
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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. Family Planning
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New Low Birth Weight and Preterm Birth Estimates: Know what they are and how to use them
Children born too soon or too small are at the highest risk of dying in utero, during birth and in the neonatal period, and also have increased health and development risks throughout their lifetime. Of the 2.5 million neonatal deaths in 2018, over 80% we
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Midwives in Mali: Key actors in the reduction of maternal, newborn and child mortality in Mali (Capsule – Sage-Femme)
This video from the USAID-funded, Services de Santé à Grand Impact (SSGI) project in Mali features the midwife of the district referral hospital in Kolondieba, Sikasso region. She describes the skills acquired with the support of the SSGI project that ena
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Community Action Groups: local force to resolve health problems of women, newborn & children in Mali (Capsule – CAG)
This video from the USAID-funded, Services de Santé à Grand Impact project in Mali features a few community action groups to highlight the various initiatives undertaken by community member to address their priority health problems. Cette vidéo du proje