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Each year, millions of babies die within the first few weeks of life. A new report from the World Health Organization and Save the Children says many of those newborn deaths are easily preventable.
At that slow rate of progress, Lawn says it?ll take 155 years for African babies to have the same chance of survival that babies in high income countries have today.
She said newborns are ?barely on the global health agenda.?
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She said having more midwives and healthcare workers in rural areas is critical. The third leading cause of death is infection.
India has the highest number of newborn deaths each year ? more than 900,
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?This is the most comprehensive picture that we have to date of what?s happening for newborn deaths around the world and over time. And these estimates look at 193 countries and over 20 years,? said Dr. Joy Lawn of Save the Children,
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Lawn is the head of Saving Newborn Lives, a program of Save the Children. She said more investment is needed. But she says that means investing in the ?right things to do? for child and maternal care.
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?I?m a baby born in Africa. I was born in the bush of northern Uganda and my mother had complications in childbirth. And she nearly died and I would have died if people hadn?t made a difference,? she said.
?This is particularly critical for the Millennium Development Goals. We now only have four years left until that target in 2015,? she said.
?In certain areas,? said Lawn, ?particularly Africa, there?s been very little progress. The average annual rate of reducing newborn deaths in Africa is less than one percent per year. It?s almost the same as no change.?
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The second leading cause of death for newborns is complications during delivery. ?So lack of care at the time of birth, having a midwife, having access to safe care at birth would save the baby and the mother,
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Newborn deaths make up over 40 percent of child deaths worldwide.
?Every year, in the first month of life, there are 3.3 million babies who die. This is a huge number of deaths. It sounds overwhelming, but each of those deaths is a mother who has lost a baby,
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The report says even the United States is not immune from the problem. It says 19,
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