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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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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

Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children Sweden | INERELA+ | ...
Off the Radar: Meeting Contraceptive Needs of Populations on the Move

This meeting summary provides an overview of and findings from the “Off the Radar: Meeting Contraceptive Needs of Populations on the Move” side event from the International Conference on Family Planning 2018. It is a helpful resource for program staff who

Publication year: 2019 Publisher(s): Save the Children US
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.

Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children US
Family Planning and Postabortion Care in Emergencies in Egypt

This fact sheet provides details on Save the Children's family planning and postabortion care programming in greater Cairo, Egypt.

Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children US
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.

Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children US
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.

Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children US
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.

Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children US
Family Planning and Postabortion Care in Emergencies in Rwanda

This fact sheet provides details on Save the Children's family planning and postabortion care programming for Burundian refugees in the Mahama II Refugee Camp in Rwanda.

Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children US
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.

Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children US
Delivering Reproductive Health When She Needs It Most

One in four people in need of humanitarian assistance is a woman or girl of reproductive age (15–49 years). Their health needs don’t disappear in a conflict or natural disaster — in fact, they grow greater and more urgent in humanitarian settings where tr

Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children US
Concraception without Borders

This fact sheet highlights the Contraception Without Borders project, which aims to increase use of quality family planning services among nomadic and semi-nomadic populations in northeastern Kenya and around the world by engaging regional stakeholders to

Publication year: 2018 Publisher(s): Save the Children US
Saving Newborn Lives: Champions toolkit (Second Edition)

Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives (SNL) program has a long and successful history of collaborating with newborn health champions to advocate for robust policies and programs to reduce global neonatal mortality. SNL and pediatricians, midwives, memb

Publication year: 2017 Publisher(s): Save the Children Author(s): Roma, Sarah | Levine, Carlisle