Ending Newborn Deaths - Ensuring Every Baby Survives

Publisher:: Save The Children
Publication Date:: 25 February 2014
Tags:: Africa, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Women and Gender

Each year 40 million women across the world give birth without trained help, according to new research published by Save the Children, jeopardising millions of newborns and mothers' lives, in sub-Saharan Africa over half of women give birth without skilled help. Dramatic global progress is being made in saving children's lives. We have made unprecedented gains in reducing child mortality; almost half as many children under-five died in 2012 compared to 1990. But this progress could stall unless we tackle the high numbers of newborns still dying every day, and which account for more than 4 in 10 child under-five deaths. Despite knowing that quality care at birth can prevent the majority of newborn deaths and stillbirths during labour, 40 million women give birth each year without any trained health worker present. Progress on Millennium Development Goal 4 and on future targets to end preventable child deaths cannot be achieved without substantial and urgent progress on improving access to quality care at birth. 2014 offers a powerful opportunity to address this. Countries and institutions around the world will sit down to agree a global action plan called 'Every Newborn: an action plan to end preventable death's' (ENAP). Save the Children is working to ensure it provides an ambitious and robust roadmap and joint action platform for ending preventable newborn deaths.

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Ending Newborn Deaths - Ensuring Every Baby Survives

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