By Lisa Pell | Project Co-Leader
Almost every newborn death should be preventable. However, this year, almost 3 million newborns will die within their first month. In 2015, most of the world’s newborn deaths occurred in South Asia and over 280,000 newborns died in only two South Asian countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
With your support, along with generous donations from two Canadian-based funding agencies, we have raised enough money to distribute kits to approximately 36,000 pregnant women in Northern Pakistan.
We aim to begin distributing these life-saving kits, and education on usage, to pregnant women in rural areas of Pakistan in the last quarter of 2018. While we procure supplies, and develop a plan to handle the difficult logistics for this important next phase of work, we will continue to raise funds for additional kits and data monitoring.
Our long-term goal is to gather enough evidence to present to local and national governments to gain support for wide scaled-up sustainable distribution of the kit in Pakistan and other similar resource-constrained settings.
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