NEW: Survive & Thrive Global Development Alliance Progress Report
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NEW: Survive &
Thrive Global Development Alliance Progress Report.
Since 2012, Survive
& Thrive Global Development Alliance has been a public private partnership
working to improve the quality of facility-based maternal, newborn, and child
health (MNCH) services in focus countries. In 2014, the Survive & Thrive
Alliance merged with the previously established Helping Babies Breathe
Alliance. The Progress Report highlights the results that were achieved by
supporting and sustaining high quality, facility-based MNCH interventions such
as training, mentoring, and technology innovation as well as strengthening
professional associations to improve the quality of high-impact interventions
in health facilities.
Here are some examples
of our success:
Survive & Thrive has trained 355,000 health
providers in more than 80 countries and has had an impact on more than 5,000 health facilities by
training and mentoring health providers and delivering equipment.
Since the start of the Alliance, we have distributed
233,780 resuscitators, 126,818 simulators, and more than 30,000 training
materials such as Helping Babies Breathe.
In 7 countries, governments and partners equipped 88
percent of facilities with resuscitation devices and trained 75 percent of
health providers in neonatal resuscitation.
Helping Babies Breathe programs in Tanzania and Nepal
showed a reduction in early neonatal deaths within 24 hours of birth by 50 percent
and reduction in fresh stillbirths by 25 percent.
The Alliance reached 13 professional associations in 7
countries.
Bangladesh rolled out a national Helping Babies Breathe
training and systems strengthening program, reaching a total of 25,460
skilled birth attendants (SBAs) in all 64 districts of the country,
including 3,000 private sector SBAs.
These partnerships are working to integrate Survive &
Thrive programs into national newborn care programs to improve uptake and reach
national scale in focus countries.