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His Honorable Aaron Motsoaledi, South Africa’s Minister of Health, welcomed conference participants last night at a reception, emphasizing that with less than 1000 days to reach Millennium Development Goal 4 of reducing under-5 child mortality rates, saving newborn lives is instrumental to our success.
The lively event featured Yvonne Chaka Chaka, South African singer, founder of the Princess of Africa Foundation and UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador.
Click here to check out all event photos!
This morning, Graça Machel, incoming Chair of the Board for the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH), and UN Resident Coordinator Agostinho Zacarias welcomed the audience of nearly 500 health experts, government officials and stakeholders. Read opening remarks made by Graça Machel, Koki Agarwal (MCHIP), David Oot (Save the Children), Geeta Rao Gupta (UNICEF), and Gary Darmstadt (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation).
Following the opening ceremony, conference organizers in partnership with Voice of America hosted a press conference to help expand our reach. Journalists from the Guardian UK, Agence France-Presse (AFP), AllAfrica, and Business Day Live, among others, were in attendance and ready to cover the event. Check out some news coverage. In addition, radio interviews have been airing all weekend.
Satellite viewing parties were held today in Bangladesh, Malawi, Nepal and India, and the live webcast received over 1000 views across the world.
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Scaling up national newborn programs: Country progress and future opportunities
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Coordination and collaboration among all partners, political will, and community mobilization are necessary for scaling up newborn health interventions.
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Challenges to implementation at the national level include human resources and supervision, data management and use, sustainability, conflicting priorities, and lack of resources for maternal and newborn health.
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Malawi has implemented a sector-wide approach with a number of partners, including members of government, academia, the US government, and NGO officials. Statistics motivate a collaborative strategy.
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To develop an integrated approach to newborn health in Nepal, the country calls on support from all stakeholders and works to learn from other countries’ experiences. The country plan involves family planning and strategic thinking on social, cultural, and national issues.
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In Latin America and the Caribbean, a regional alliance for newborn health has met challenges in reaching the country level. There, professional associations have been critical, as members have brought knowledge from the alliance to their colleagues and to the MOH.
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Country experiences in delivering an integrated maternal and newborn care package: Key messages from experiences in Rwanda, Ecuador and Nepal
• Many systems are operating vertical or parallel programs that do not talk to each other. It is critical that they work together to create and update norms, monitor and supervise.
• There is an important role for pre-service and in-service training, follow-up and supervision.
• mHealth provides good opportunities to deliver integrated care and can help better identify pregnant women, report data, etc.
• There is need for ongoing training of frontline health workers.
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Scaling up newborn programs: The Global Newborn Action Plan (GNAP)
This panel introduced the GNAP, a high-level roadmap for change. It takes forward the Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health by focusing specific attention on newborn health and identifying actions for the way forward.
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The GNAP builds on the momentum put forth by global initiatives including Every Woman Every Child, A Promise Renewed, and the London Family Planning Summit. It calls upon all stakeholders who can make a difference and aims to set forth coordinated action and efforts for accelerated impact.
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Help decide the #NewbornActionPlan vision, goal & targets. Visit http://bit.ly/YIQx1I to download the GNAP for consultation and have your say!
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Trending on #Newborn2013
@MelindaGates: Conversations matter. Fantastic to see discussion on mother and newborn health led by moms themselves. gates.ly/ZWnjqN #Newborn2013
@PMNCH: The #NewbornActionPlan consultation launched today. Visit bit.ly/YIQx1I to view the background doc & share feedback. #Newborn2013
@socialgoodmoms: Newborn health now has a place on the global agenda. We have interventions. We're making progress. @gdarmsta #newborn2013.
@Thirdeyemom: Beautiful post on importance of #newborn2013. The Tree of (Newborn) Life gates.ly/15bq0wD via @ gatesfoundation
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Explore topics:
MCHIP’s technical teams (on HIV, health systems, equity, mHealth, water and sanitation, etc.) each wrote blogs about their roles in newborn health. This is great evidence for the relevance of newborn health across global health programs. Read them all here.
Check out the Latin American Newborn Health Alliance and read about their regional strategy for newborn health.
Visit the new Global Newborn Action Website, where you can download the GNAP draft for consultation and have your say.
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Coming up next:
- Evening Skills and Knowledge Sessions will last for 45 minutes each. Participants will rotate between sessions covering topics including Kangaroo Mother Care, monitoring and evaluation, malaria in pregnancy, early infant male circumcision and mobile health.
- Stop by the Survey Kiosk tomorrow during break times and lunch to provide your feedback on the conference and the GNAP.
- Concurrent sessions are taking place all day on the three main killers of newborns: birth asphyxia, preterm birth and infection.
- Walk through the country poster gallery: posters reflect the status of newborn health programs incountry
View the full conference agenda
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