Saving The World's Babies Simply Starts At Birth
Every day, all over the world, newborns die when they don't have to. They die from preventable infections and because their tiny bodies can't stay warm enough.
Shefali, a mother from Bangladesh, knows this global tragedy all too well.
"Whenever a child is born and then dies, we're overwhelmed with grief," she says. "It's terrible."
Shefali has given birth to six children at home in her village in Bangladesh. Only three of her babies have survived the first week of life.
"We feel like we need to take the child to the doctor, but we can't," she says in a new report, from the non-profit aid group Save the Children. "I'm not the only one here who has lost children — there are many other mothers like me."
Many of these deaths are not inevitable, doctors say, but innovations aimed at preventing them are just beginning to be deployed.