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Over the past two decades, the world has made remarkable progress in children’s survival and health: child deaths have been reduced by half. This is the result of years of effort and the delivery of a small set of proven health and nutrition interventions. Despite this progress, each year nearly six million children still die before their fifth birthday – most of these deaths are preventable. Globally, the leading causes of death in children under five are preterm birth complications, pneumonia, complications during labour and delivery, diarrhoea and sepsis or meningitis. Progress has been uneven and millions of children have been left behind due to poverty, their ethnic identity, because they live in remote areas or urban slums, or in countries caught up in conflicts.

Within the health and nutrition thematic area, Save the Children focusses on ensuring that all young children receive the health and nutrition care and services they require to survive. To achieve this goal, Save the Children collaborates with local governments, multilateral institutions, grassroots organizations and others to strengthen health systems, and works with individuals, families and communities to encourage the uptake of healthy behaviors. We work in both humanitarian and development contexts.

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  1. Every Child Can Be a Superhero

    This video is produced for children and parents amidst this coronavirus pandemic. It is specific to Rwanda but the message of staying home and practicing good hygiene is the same globally. It was produced with this in mind, accurate and age-appropriate in

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children Rwanda

  2. Improving Nutrition in Cambodia During the First 1,000 Days: The Nourish Experience 2014-2020

    This end of project report demonstrates how NOURISH worked to accelerate stunting reduction by focusing directly on the causal factors of chronic malnutrition specific to Cambodia; poverty, lack of access to quality food and nutrition services, unsanitary

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children US

  3. Newborn Health Resources: Trainings and tools for improving newborn health in humanitarian settings

    In 2018, the Global Health Cluster lead by the World Health Organization (WHO) conducted a capacity survey of Global Health Cluster partners to capture information on partners’ self-assessment of their technical, operational, and coordination capacities.

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children US | Laerdal Global Health | ... Author(s): Cortier, Hilde

  4. Fighting for Breath in Nigeria 2020: A call to action to stop children dying from pneumonia

    Pneumonia is the world’s leading infectious killer of children, claiming the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five every year, more than 2,000 every day. It is a shocking demonstration of pervasive health inequities disproportionately

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children UK | UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund | ...

  5. Fighting for Breath in South Sudan 2020: A call to action to stop children dying from pneumonia

    Pneumonia is the world’s leading infectious killer of children, claiming the lives of more than 800,000 children under the age of five every year, more than 2,000 every day. It is a shocking demonstration of pervasive health inequities disproportionately

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children UK | UNICEF, United Nations Children's Fund | ...

  6. Adolescent Nutrition Teachers' Guide

    Guide to help Teachers, Facilitators of Adolescent Support Groups and Community Health Workers explain the adolescent nutrition SBCC materials, their purpose, and how to use them.  USAID Lishe Endelevu Adolescent Nutrition SBCC Resources Bank

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children Tanzania

  7. Tip Sheets for Disability Inclusion During COVID-19

    These tip sheets provide recommendations for disability inclusion during COVID-19 across a range of thematic areas and topics.

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children Author(s): Orsander, Martina

  8. "Am I Doing The Wrong Thing?" How Social Norms Influence Provider Provision of Contraceptive Services to Adolescents

    This brief shares insights and findings from qualitative research conducted in Nairobi, Kenya using the Social Norms Exploration Tool (developed by the Passages Project) to explore root causes of provider bias in contraceptive services to adolescents by e

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children US

  9. Save the Children's Global COVID-19 Response: Situation Report no. 1, May 2020

    The COVID-19 Pandemic poses immediate and long-lasting risks to the rights of children including the disruption of access to education, the potential for reduced access to primary and secondary health services, and increased protection risks. Save the Chi

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children International

  10. Towards a New EU Global Health Strategy: Civil society shadow Global Health Strategy

    The EU hosts many of the best healthcare systems in the world and brings its extensive technical and managerial experience to advancing global health. It has tremendous convening power, a wide scope of action and partnerships, presence in international or

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children Europe | AidsFonds | ...

  11. Growing Up GREAT! Implementation Guide

    Growing Up Great! is a scalable, multi-level intervention designed to improve sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and gender equity among very young adolescents (VYA) and the important adults in their lives. It supports VYAs and their communities to ques

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): The Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University Author(s): Gayles, Jennifer

  12. Improving Availability and Quality of Routine Data for Newborns: Malawi’s experience with kangaroo mother care (KMC)

    Malawi has systematically scaled up Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) for the care of preterm and low-birth-weight (LBW) babies since 2005. However, the absence of a national system of standardized indicators, registers, and reports resulted in limited, poor qua

    Publication year: 2020 Publisher(s): Save the Children US Author(s): Chavula, Kondwani

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Health and Nutrition Global Theme

Health & Nutrition is one of five global themes prioritized by Save the Children to deliver its new strategy.

Within the health and nutrition thematic area, Save the Children focuses on ensuring that all young children receive the health and nutrition care and services they require to survive. To achieve this goal, Save the Children collaborates with local governments, multilateral institutions, grassroots organizations and others to strengthen health systems, and works with individuals, families and communities to encourage the uptake of healthy behaviors.

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