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UNFPA

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) is an international development agency that promotes the right to reproductive health and works to reduce maternal mortality and gender-based violence.

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Mothers whose babies were born prematurely and who successfully went through Kangaroo Mother Care at the Mtwara District Hospital in Mtwara. Save the Children Ambassador Ashley Jensen visited Save the Children's newborn health programmes in southern Tanzania to learn more about the vital need for lifesaving equipment, medicines, and trained midwives in preventing the unnecessary death of newborn children. Over the last year Save the Children has trained 392 health workers in the Lindi region of Tanzania, and provided them with the skills they need to stop preventable deaths associated to child birth and newborn babies. Lindi region is one of the Tanzania's poorest areas - where children and mothers die in higher numbers than anywhere else in the country. Under-five mortality rate in Lindi is as high as 117 per 1,000 live births. Children's in this region is influenced by complex issues including remoteness, poor infrastructure such as roads and electricity, lack of education, inadequate planning and budgeting for health, lack of equipment and staff training as well as socio-cultural and religious beliefs. Maternal, new born and child health indicators are still relatively poor in Tanzania, with the Maternal Mortality ratio as high as 454 deaths per 100,000 births, neonatal death of 26 per 1,000, Infant Mortality Rate of 51 per 1,000 and under five Mortality Rate of 81 per 1,000 live births.

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UNFPA is the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled.

By working with governments and NGOs in more than 140 countries, UNPFA works for a world where for ending unmet need for family planning, Ending preventable maternal death, Ending gender-based violence and harmful practices

Visit our website to unfpa.org

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Our goal achieving a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled and we do everything to make it possible for every woman down to the last mile.

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