Ending newborn deaths - Save the Children report

In 2012, 2.9 million newborn babies died within 28 days worldwide. A third of these babies died on their first day of life. The Save the Children Organisation urges action as "there is a real danger that progress in reducing child deaths will stall, and we will fail in our ambition to be the generation that can end all preventable child deaths." 

Their report, Ending Newborn Deaths sets out an agenda to tackle the crisis and identifies the essential interventions around birth that a properly skilled midwife or other trained health worker can deliver to save newborn lives and prevent stillbirths during labour.  The authors call on governments, world leaders and the private sector to ensure access to properly trained and equipped health workers at birth and universal health coverage for the poorest and hardest-to-reach communities.