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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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Approches Intégrées pour Améliorer l' Accès aux Services de Planification Familiale au Mali 2015-2020
La planifcation familiale (PF) est reconnue depuis longtemps comme étant un moyen essentiel pour maintenir la santé et le bien-être des femmes et de leurs familles. Au Mali, la faible utilisation des services de santé de la reproduction en général et de l
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Améliorer la Santé des Mères et des Nouveau-nés à Mali au Travers des Approches Intégrées
Au Mali, la mortalité maternelle et néonatale reste élevée, avec 325 décès maternels pour 100 000 naissances vivantes et 33 décès néonataux pour 1000 naissances vivantes, comparée à 368 décès maternels pour 100 000 naissances vivantes et 34 décès néonatau
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Soins Mère Kangourou: Les prématurés ont le droit de survivre
Au cours des cinq dernières années, le taux de mortalité néonatale est resté stationnaire (34 ‰ en 2013 a 33 ‰ en 2018). La première cause de décès néonataux au Mali est la prématurité (33%), suivie par l’asphyxie (25%) et ensuite les infections néonatale
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USAID Services de Santé à Grand Impact: End of project narrative report
This is the End of Project report for the USAID-funded Services de Santé à Grand Impact (SSGI) project (2015-2020), which improved the survival and nutritional status of Malian mothers, newborns, and children under five through increased and sustained use
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USAID Services de Santé à Grand Impact Approche Participative pour Atteindre le Statut: Centre de santé propre
Au Mali, le projet Services de Santé à Grand Impact (SSGI) financé par l’USAID, visait à améliorer la survie et l’état nutritionnel des mères, des nouveau nés et des enfants de moins de cinq ans grâce à une utilisation accrue et pérenne des services de sa
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Integration of Midwifery Services into the Health System: Experience of strengthening the National Midwifery Program (SNMP) through UNFPA and Save the Children in Bangladesh
In April 2017, UNFPA collaborated with Save the Children to launch the Strengthening the National Midwifery Program (SNMP) (2017-2021) under the leadership of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare (MOH&FW) to strengthen midwifery education and demonstra
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MOMENTUM Country & Global Leadership
This is a program brief for the MOMENTUM Country & Global Leadership Project. MOMENTUM Country & Global Leadership is part of a suite of innovative awards funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to holistically improve family plann
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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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"It might be a statistic to me, but every death matters.”: An assessment of facility-level maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response systems in four sub-Saharan African countries
Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) systems aim to understand and address key contributors to maternal and perinatal deaths to prevent future deaths. From 2016–2017, the US Agency for International Development’s Maternal and Chi
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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 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 Yemen
This fact sheet provides details on Save the Children's family planning and postabortion care programming in Yemen. Family Planning