Help save newborn lives
We can end preventable newborn and child deaths in our lifetime – but we need more than a single drug or intervention. We need governments, health-care workers, communities and families to come together to provide affordable, quality health care for every mother and baby, starting with the most vulnerable.
UNICEF is calling for universal health coverage, starting with four main pillars:
Functional health facilities, with electricity and clean water
Midwives and other health workers equipped with training and tools
Life-saving drugs and equipment
Adolescent girls, women and families empowered to demand and receive quality care
You can donate and help innocent newborn babies.
Becoming a monthly donor will help ensure:
- You are helping children get all the necessary care and treatment consistently and timely for months. It usually takes months for a child to fully recover from an illness.
- You are saving the lives of more and more children. Many children are being born underweight and premature every month so continuous support is needed.
- You are making a long-term impact in the health of newborn babies in South Africa.
- You are helping in better and bigger planning of improving healthcare in South Africa.
7,000 newborn babies die every day.
These children are not dying because we don’t have the tools to save them. More than 80% of all newborn deaths are caused by preventable and treatable conditions, including complications due to prematurity or during delivery, and infections like sepsis, meningitis and pneumonia.
No parents should experience the heartbreak of watching their child suffer or die. By making sure every mother and baby has access to affordable, quality care, we can save newborn lives.
Take Action
You can help to end preventable newborn deaths. Make a longterm impact in the lives of vulnerable newborn babies in South Africa