Unrelenting advocates for newborns. It's Due Time.
The Newborn Foundation is the only organization of its kind dedicated to leveraging technology innovation to save newborn lives and improve health outcomes for the newest, most vulnerable citizens.
IMPACT
11,000 babies die every day - before they are even one month old, most in the first days of life. In just three short years, the Newborn Foundation and Coalition’s advocacy and policy leadership has literally changed the landscape of point-of-care screening - and helped save countless lives.
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BORNproject
What if a little red beam of light could save hundreds of thousands of newborn lives? The BORN Project is the first global health initiative leveraging mobile pulse oximetry technology to combat neonatal mortality. This targeted education-and-implementation project is bringing low-cost, effective screening for the most common, life-threatening conditions in newborns - claiming the lives of nearly 2 million babies every year, 2/3 of those in the first week of life.