Nov 27
A while back I posted about Save the Children’s 2006 Mother’s Index, found in their annual State of the World’s Mothers report. The index indicated that many African nations are among those lowest ranked for mother and newborn wellbeing.
In related news, just recently the World Health Organisation’s Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health issued a report on the health and well-being of babies in Africa:
Each year at least 1.16 million newborn babies die in sub-Saharan Africa. This region has the highest risk of newborn deaths and the slowest progress in reducing mortality. More than two thirds of these babies could be saved with low cost, low tech interventions, most of which are already in policy but do not reach the poor.
For more information, read the report’s executive summary, or the complete document (optimistically titled Opportunities for Africa’s Newborns). Both the exec summary and the full document are in PDF format.