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Title: Strengthening and integrating newborn care in Malawi


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Strengthening and integrating newborn care in
Malawi
Based on lessons learned from Opportunities for
Africas Newborns
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Adapting this presentation
  • Personalise with own photos, updated data,
    charts. Charts and graphs are based on best
    available data up to November 2006.
  • Consider adding general information slides or
    regional level data within country or
    Africa-level data as comparison slides (Africa
    data can be found in PowerPoint presentations
    linked to Sections I, II and IV on the CD)

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Outline
  • Current situation
  • How many die?
  • National progress to MDG 4
  • Causes of newborn deaths
  • MNCH policies, strategies and programmes
  • Road Map and/or other key strategies
  • Coverage of MNCH services along the continuum of
    care and missed opportunities
  • Lives saved
  • Key opportunities and gaps for newborn care
  • Ingredients for action and results
  • Financing for MNCH
  • Human resources

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How many die?
5
National progress to MDG 4
  • 20 of child deaths are newborns. MDG 4 cannot be
    met without addressing neonatal deaths.

6
Causes of newborn deaths
Infections and tetanus account for 33 of
neonatal deaths in Malawi
Low birthweight rate 16
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MNCH policies, strategies and programmes
  • For this slide
  • Add Road Map or Child Survival strategy progress
    and/or other MNCH commitments

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Coverage along the MNCH continuum of care
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Missed opportunities for essential interventions
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Lives can be saved
  • If essential interventions reached 90 of women
    and newborns in Malawi, up to 8,900 newborn lives
    could be saved

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Key opportunities to strengthen newborn care
  • Examples
  • Consider strengthening of newborn care in MNCH
    through
  • Pre-pregnancy education and nutrition, birth
    spacing
  • Antenatal care
  • Childbirth care Skilled attendance and
    emergency obstetric care
  • Postnatal care
  • IMCI
  • Consider integration of newborn health with the
    following programmes
  • Nutrition promotion
  • Malaria prevention
  • PMTCT
  • Immunisation programmes

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Gaps in service provision of newborn interventions
  • Examples
  • Low coverage of key interventions and at key
    points in the continuum of care, especially
    postnatal care
  • Missed opportunities within existing packages
    (e.g. if skilled attendants cannot resuscitate
    babies)
  • Missed populations in rural areas, gap between
    rich and poor and specific ethnic groups
    receiving services
  • Consider underlying causes, such as
  • Inadequate skilled personnel
  • Limited community interventions
  • Lack of equipment/supplies/commodities

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Ingredients for action
  • Increased attention - commitment from political
    leaders and decision-makers
  • Integrated plan - focus on newborns within
    existing maternal and child survival strategies
  • Implementation - clearly defined supervision,
    monitoring, and evaluation mechanisms
  • Investment - efficient allocation of resources
    for newborn health and survival, especially in
    human resources

14
Financing for MNCH
  • Gross national income, per capita US170
  • Government spending on health, per capita US5
  • Government spending on health (Abuja target 15)
    9
  • Out-of-pocket spending on health 28
  • Partial user fee protection for women and
    children

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Results
  • Newborn lives saved
  • Older childrens lives saved
  • Womens lives saved
  • Disabilities reduced
  • Large increases in productivity and income
    generating ability

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  • How can we best make a big difference for
    Malawis mothers, newborns and children the
    nations future?
  • add own slogan or call to action
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