NEW: Survive & Thrive Global Development Alliance Progress Report

Join Global Health on Follow Global Health on 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. Learn more Read the Survive & Thrive Progress Report [PDF, 2.5MB] Visit the Survive & Thrive web page Join the conversation on social media using #SurviveThriveGDA          Photo credit: Survive & Thrive

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