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Every Death Counts: Saving the lives of mothers, babies and children in South Africa
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Three South African mortality audit reports, Saving Mothers, Saving Babies and Saving Children, offer a review of the healthcare provided to mothers, babies and children. These reports synthesise audit information to help guide priority setting for the National Department of Health and all levels of health service delivery. In Every Death Counts, the authors of these three reports have come together to present a set of unified recommendations with specific actions for government officials and policymakers, health managers and healthcare providers to save lives.
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Each day in South Africa at least 260 mothers, babies and children die. This toll is related to 5 major challenges: pregnancy and childbirth complications, newborn illness, childhood illness, HIV & AIDS and malnutrition. More than half of these lives could be saved with full coverage of basic packages already existing in the South African healthcare system. Everyone has a role to play in ensuring the best care for South Africa's future.
Download Every Death Counts (link to PDF 1MB)
Download Data Supplement for Every Death Counts (PDF 358 KB)
Download the Press Release(PDF 124KB)
Download Lancet South Africa Every Death Counts (PDF 1,014KB)
For more information:
The Savings reports
Helpful resources and links
THE Savings REPORTS
Every Death Counts: Saving the lives of mothers, babies and children in South Africa
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Maternal, neonatal and child deaths, plus stillbirths |
| Inputs: |
The three national audit reports, with additional national data on tracking for progress and recommendations that are cross cutting, |
| Coordination: |
Compiled by the teams that lead the three audit reports, with the National Dept of Health, MRC Unit for Maternal and Infant Healthcare Strategies, MRC Burden of Disease and MRC Health Systems internal units and Save the Children |
| Report: |
Click to download PDF |
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Saving Mothers: Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (NCCEMD)
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Maternal deaths |
| Inputs: |
Aims to capture all maternal deaths |
| Numbers: |
1,173 maternal deaths reported in 2004 (3,406 maternal deaths for 2002-2004) |
| Frequency: |
One report for year 1998, and thereafter triennially |
| Coordination: |
Reported to the National Committee on Confidential Enquiries into Maternal Deaths |
| Report: |
Click to download PDF summary |
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Saving Babies: Perinatal Problem Identification Programme (PPIP)
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Stillbirths and pre-discharge early neonatal deaths |
| Inputs: |
164 facilities reported information on 576,065 births 2003-2005 |
| Numbers: |
4,067 stillbirths and 2,887 early neonatal deaths audited, annual average 2003-2005 |
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Annually 2000-2002, biennial since 2003 |
| Coordination: |
Compiled by the audit users, MRC Unit for Maternal and Infant Healthcare Strategies, with the National Dept of Health |
| Report: |
Click to download PDF |
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Saving Children: Child Healthcare Problem Identification Programme (Child PIP)
| Includes: |
Infants and children (birth to 18 yrs), admitted to paediatric wards |
| Inputs: |
28 facilities across South Africa provided information on 58,341 admissions |
| Numbers: |
4,228 audited deaths from January 2005 - January 2008 |
| Frequency: |
Annually since 2004 |
| Coordination: |
Compiled by the audit users, MRC Unit for Maternal and Infant Healthcare Strategies, with the National Dept of Health |
| Report: |
Click to download PDF |
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HELPFUL RESOURCES AND LINKS
Links for partners involved in Every Death Counts |
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