Newborn Health: Millions of neonatal deaths annually are the result of severe infections like sepsis
Almost a quarter of the 3 million neonatal deaths annually are the result of severe infections like sepsis - a fast progressing life-threatening illness. Sepsis can be difficult to recognize in newborns, who rapidly decline without timely treatment.
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Newborn Health: Nearly half of all under-5 deaths occur in newborns.
Of the newborn deaths, a quarter of those result from severe infection.
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Newborn Health: Newborn deaths avoided with simple measures
Most newborn deaths due to infection could be avoided with simple preventive measures, such as improving hygiene and getting medicine to sick newborns.
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Newborn Health: Early antibiotic treatment
When families can identify severe infection and start antibiotic treatment early, they dramatically increase a newborn’s chance of survival.
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Newborn Health: Simplified antibiotics save more newborns
A new simplified antibiotic regimen means more families in poor countries can access the critical treatment their newborns need to survive, making it possible to save more newborns than ever before.
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Newborn Health: Simplified antibiotics regimen just as effective
A recent study found a simplified antibiotic regimen to be just as effective at treating infections in newborns as the standard course of twice daily injections over the course of a week.
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Newborn Health: USAID works to prevent newborn deaths
USAID is intensifying efforts to develop, test, and scale up simple, low-cost approaches to preventing newborn death in lower-income countries.
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Newborn Health: New treatment promises to save thousands of newborn lives
By improving access to effective and available treatment, a new simplified treatment promises to save thousands of newborn lives with low-cost, effective and commonly available antibiotics.
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Last updated: January 25, 2022
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