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Tracy Hampton, PhD

JAMA. 2006;295:149-150.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text and any section headings.

Every year, 4 million newborns die in the first month of life, virtually all of them in developing countries. Most of these deaths can be prevented by simple measures, but funding and programs aimed at providing better access to care have been lacking.

Now, however, health experts are seeing encouraging signs that efforts to bring simple and low-cost tools to improve infant survival in developing countries are gathering steam. International health agencies, nonprofit organizations, and others are launching new initiatives, some of which recently received a multimillion-dollar boost from the Seattle, Wash–based Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Efforts are under way to bring simple and inexpensive measures to developing countries aimed at improving newborn survival. (Photo credit: Save the Children)

NEW INITIATIVES

Newborn mortality is especially severe in Africa, where 1 in 5 African women loses a baby during her lifetime compared with 1 in 125 women in wealthy . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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