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Maternal, newborn, and child health

We equip caregivers with best practices and create and advance easy-to-use technologies to prevent deadly complications in labor and delivery.

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Mapping the road to equity in maternal, newborn, and child health
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  1. Newborn baby wrapped in African cloth.
    October 1, 2013

    An inexpensive, lifesaving antiseptic for newborn cord care

    Chlorhexidine is a dependable antiseptic that’s been around since the 1950s. It’s inexpensive, effective, safe, and common in drugstores and hospitals across the United States and Europe. In poor countries, a new formulation can be a powerful solution to an unacceptable tragedy: the preventable deaths of hundreds of thousands of newborns every year from infection.
  2. Two men and a woman watch a man gesturing to a blue and black garment.
    September 27, 2013

    At the UN General Assembly, 10 ways to save lives

    At the United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, leaders in global health have been meeting to measure progress on the UN’s Millennium Development Goals, including saving the lives of mothers and babies. They’ve also been assessing how far we must go before all women and children, no matter the circumstances of their birth, have an equal chance at life and health.
  3. Smiling mother holds a swaddled infant in her arms.
    September 23, 2013

    The power to save millions of lives

    It’s no secret in global health: we already know how to save the lives of women and children. We have at hand innovations that target the leading killers of mothers and their babies—innovations that could help us meet Millennium Development Goals 4 and 5, which call for a marked decrease in maternal and child deaths by 2015.
  4. Baby bundled in orange hoodie.
    September 17, 2013

    Providing infants with the best start in life

    When Njabulo was born, his mother gave him the perfect food—breast milk. But she died when he was just two months old, leaving the infant without the source of nutrients he so needed and the antibodies to keep him free from illness. Njabulo was in dire shape when he was placed in a transition home for HIV-exposed infants. Fortunately, the home was one of the few places in South Africa with a human milk bank. Fed donated mother’s milk, the tiny infant began to thrive.
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