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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 Pakistan
This fact sheet provides details on Save the Children's family planning and postabortion care programming in Pakistan.
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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
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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 Egypt
This fact sheet provides details on Save the Children's family planning and postabortion care programming in greater Cairo, Egypt.
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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.
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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 Syria
This fact sheet provides details on Save the Children's family planning and postabortion care programming in Syria.
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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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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
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Twelve-month Contraceptive Continuation Among Women Initiating Short- and Long-acting Reversible Contraceptives in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
An evaluation of a contraceptive services program in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was conducted to measure 12-month contraceptive continuation by type of contraceptive method (short-acting or long-acting). This is the first study of
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Chlorhexidine and Newborn Omphalitis and Mortality
This Lancet correspondence disagrees with conclusions David Osrin & Tim Colbourn made from Cochrane reviews, which uphold the recommendation to restrict the use of chlorhexidine to “infants born at home in environments with high neonatal mortality rates.”
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Pragati: Fertility awareness for quality of life
Project brief summarizing the Pragati "Fertility Awareness for Quality of Life" intervention under USAID's Fertility Awareness for Community Transformation project, implemented by Save the Children and Georgetown University Institute for Reproductive Heal