The Survive & Thrive partnership works to:- Expand clinical competencies among health professionals who care for women, newborns and children
- Accelerate the scale up of quality improvement processes and approaches
- Bring affordable technologies and innovative educational materials and products to health professionals and their patients
- Support efforts to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of these programs so that they can be strengthened and scaled accordingly
- Create learning opportunities for emerging global health leaders
Program Areas
Maternal Health
- Basic and comprehensive emergency obstetric care
- Prevention and management of postpartum hemorrhage and eclampsia
- Long-acting, reversible and permanent contraception
- Prevention and management of maternal and health care acquired infections
Newborn Health
- Newborn resuscitation
- Immediate essential newborn care
- Prevention and management of preterm and low-birthweight newborns
- Newborn screening and management
- Prevention and management of newborn and health care acquired infections
Child Health
- Case management of pneumonia and diarrhea
- Early childhood development
- Prevention and management of non-communicable diseases
- Prevention and management of child and health care acquired infections
Professional Association Strengthening
- Developing the ability of individuals and professionals to conduct oversight, perform tasks, assess clinical competencies and outcomes of teams, and provide clinical opinions to ministries of health
- Strengthening in-country education and training of interns, residents, faculty, physicians, midwives and nurses
- Building capacity to assess facilities and improve quality of care through practices rooted in evidence and data
Global Health Scholars
- Individuals who have completed core clinical training with a professional focus in medicine, midwifery or nursing, and have prior experience in global health
- Participate in a bi-directional collaboration between professional associations, university programs and ministries of health to build human resources and institutional capacity that affect change in standards of care in limited-resource settings
Program Activities
Supporting the introduction of the Helping Babies Survive suite of programs in 22 countries through regional workshops in Africa and Asia:Asia | Africa
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Afghanistan | Ethiopia |
Bangladesh | Ghana |
China | Kenya |
India | Liberia |
Indonesia | Malawi |
Myanmar | Nigeria |
Nepal | South Sudan |
Pakistan | Tanzania |
Philippines | Uganda |
Vietnam | Zambia |
Yemen | Zimbabwe |
Supporting the rollout of the Helping Babies Survive suite of programs through the "Helping 100,000 Babies Survive and Thrive" initiative in:
Ethiopia |
India |
Nigeria |
Strengthening national professional associations in target countries:
Afghanistan |
Malawi |
Myanmar |
Tanzania |
Developing leadership knowledge, skills and abilities in nurses leading and providing care for mothers, newborns and children up to five years old:
Malawi |
Uganda |
Swaziland |
South Africa |