The lives of more than a million babies a year could be saved in developing countries if mothers were given access to simple, low-cost health measures such as vitamins, anti-malarial drugs and aspirin, a new analysis suggests.<\/p>\n
The authors of the analysis, published in the Lancet journal, estimate that 476,000 infant deaths and 566,000 stillbirths could be avoided each year if a handful of measures, mostly before birth, were fully implemented in 81 countries with low and middle income.<\/p>\n
Globally, the number of neonatal deaths of babies dying within 28 days has more than halved in the three decades between 1990 and 2020, from 5 million to 2.4 million.<\/p>\n
But across the developing world, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, the numbers remain high.<\/p>\n
A UN report published this week shows that the rate of progress has stalled since 2015 due to reduced investment.<\/p>\n
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