By Dr. Angelo Tomedi | Project leader
This project to save newborn lives in Kenya continues to provide home visits to assess newborns during the first week of life for signs of serious illness and refer them for prompt treatment. The 20 community health workers in the target villages who were trained by Global Health Partnerships (GHP) for this project have visited approximately 700 infants each year since the project began. More than 95% of those infants have been visited 3 times during their first week of life, as recommended by UNICEF and other specialists in newborn care. The early neonatal mortality rate (rate of death) for the visited infants has been 9 per 1,000 live births, which is much better than the national rate in Kenya of 20 deaths per 1,000. All of the funds that were generously donated by supporters of this project have been used to help achieve this laudable goal. Adequate funds to continue this project are now available from independent grant funding, leading to the decision to close this GlobalGiving project.
Please keep in mind that the GHP project "Feed Hungry Children in Kenya" remains active on the GlobalGiving web site. We are directing all rollover funds to that project. For information about that project see: http://www.globalgiving.org/projects/feed-hungry-children-in-kenya/
By Dr. Angelo Tomedi | Project leader
By Dr. Angelo Tomedi | Project leader
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