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The agencies in the Healthy Newborn Partnership work together to provide a forum for information exchange on newborn health issues, and to promote attention and action to improve newborn health and survival. The Partnership strives to share current news on newborn health in the developing world in order to increase awareness and build commitment to saving the lives of newborns worldwide.

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Three of the Four Million Newborns Who Die Each Year Could be Saved, According to New Research Published in The Lancet (3 Mar 2005, Save the Children)

Article detail the landmark series of research papers published in the leading international medical journal The Lancet on the survival of newborns nearly 3 million of of the 4 million newborns that die every year could be saved if they and their mothers had access to low-cost care.

Health-Kenya: Do Safer Births Require a Break With Tradition? (14 Feb 2005, Inter-press Service)

Details the Kenyan's government's struggle to meet the Millennium Development Goal for reducing maternal mortality through traditional birth attendants and its subsequent decision to stop training and instead "do away" with them.

WHO calls for special care for pregnant women in tsunami-hit areas (10 Feb 2005, Deutsche Presse Agentur (DPA))

New Delhi (dpa) - Special attention and skilled health services are needed for an estimated 40,000 pregnant women in tsunami-affected countries, the World Health Organization said Thursday.

Tsunami left pregnant women at high risk (21 Jan 2005, CBC News)

This article analyzes the danger that pregnant women and newborns are facing in the aftermath of the tsunami.

Changes transform childbirth in Tibet (18 Jan 2005, China Daily)

Article details UNICEF's projects in 15 counties of Tibet to increase the quality and decrease the cost of hospital deliveries.

Care Begins at Home (6 Jun 2004, India Express)

Article details India's new home-based approach to newborn care.

'Newborn Week' from Friday (15 Nov 2003, Indiatimes)

Article details India's annual newborn week, November 15.

PLAN TO SET UP 61 PAEDIATRIC CARE CENTRES (20 May 2004, The Hindu)

The State Government will open 61 Comprehensive Emergency Obstetric and Newborn Care (CEMONC) centres throughout the State in an effort to reduce the maternal mortality rate.

Program Learning and Innovations in Newborn Health (9 Dec 2003)

This meeting at the World Bank brought together health experts from the Institute of Child Health, Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives, SEARCH, the University of South Africa, and the World Bank. Speakers described experiences from community-based newborn health trials, and addressed new research frontiers and program innovations in newborn care, including birth asphyxia, infection, and management of low birth weight. The video is now available on the World Bank's website.

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New Effort Could Help Limit Infant Deaths

Article from the Times of India newspaper.

NGO Trains Women in State as Barefoot Neonatologists

Article from the Times of India newspaper.