The Saving Newborn Lives (SNL) program aims to improve health and survival of newborns in developing countries over 10-15 years. It works with governments, communities, and partners to increase access to and quality of high-impact newborn services. SNL also generates evidence on effective, low-cost newborn health interventions and supports countries in developing policies and strategies to scale up newborn care. Key activities include strengthening community health workers to provide counseling and referrals on newborn care before, during, and after birth.

1. Saving Newborn Lives

3. Introduction
• Save the children’s saving Newborn Lives (SNL)
program, supported by the Bill and Melinda
foundation is a globally recognized leader in
newborn health in many countries including
Nepal.
• Since 2000 SNL has worked to reach the
world’s most Vulnerable newborns and help
them to survive their first month of life .

4. Introduction
• Is a 10-15 years global initiative of save the
children to improve the health and survival of
newborns in the developing world.
• the initiative work with government, local
communities , and partner agencies at the
community and national levels to make progress
toward real and lasting change in new born
health.

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• SNL seeks to achieve equitable and effective
coverage of high impact newborn services and
practices . It works with government and
partners to put newborn health to on global and
national agenda as a catalyst for action .
• To accomplish its goal , the SNL program work to
develop, apply , document and sustain packages
of effective evidence- based new born care
services and practices at scale .

6. In addition, the program advocate
• To increase availability of an access to routine
and emergency newborn care services and
supplies
• To improve the quality of newborn care
services and
• To increase knowledge about and demand for
newborn care

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• To ensure quality program reach mothers and
newborns at local , national, regional and global
levels it works alongside valued partners,
ministries of health and national stakeholders.
• SNL provides technical leadership , advocacy and
measurement support.
• The program work to maintain a cycle of
evidence generation, consensus building , policy
formulation and guidance and programme
implementation and learning

8. Activities of Saving new born life
• Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives (SNL)
program is a globally recognized leader in
newborn health and a respected voice in
countries. Since 2000, SNL has worked to
increase awareness about the high burden of
preventable newborn deaths. Provide evidence
on how to prevent these deaths
• Support countries to reach the world’s most
vulnerable newborns with life saving
interventions.

9. • Saving Newborn Lives works closely with
governments to develop national strategies
and policies to improve the quality and
availability of care for newborns.
• Saving Newborn Lives also is involved in
global and regional networks and
partnerships, like the Healthy Newborn
Network.

10. • Generates evidence around newborn health,
supporting programs and research studies
evaluating the most affordable, feasible and
effective ways to save newborn lives in low-
income settings.
- Many of the studies evaluate the impact of using
existing community health workers to counsel
families about newborn care at home and refer
them to local health facilities.

11. Focused Areas
• Newborn care before birth
• Essential care for every newborn
• Successful breastfeeding
• Newborn new born resuscitation( helping baby
breath)
• On common new born problems
- breathing problems
- newborn sepsis
- umbilical cord infection
- Skin, eye infection
- oral thrush
- Problem with body temperature
- Jaundice