Case Studies

Lacking care for newborns in South Sudan prompted Save the Children and UNICEF to study barriers to quality newborn care and supplies, health workers’ attitudes toward newborn care practices, and communities’ understandings of risky symptoms in newborns.

JSI led programming that mobilized a team of female community health care volunteers and staff, who distributed chlorhexidine to reduce infant mortality after Nepal’s 2015 earthquake.

Responsible for managing health centers in three Rwandan refugee camps, Alight, formerly the American Refugee Committee, follows a hierarchical referral system for patients requiring antenatal care, linking refugee mothers to EmONC services in host country MOH facilities.