Accessible and affordable healthcare and nutrition services.

More than 80 percent of newborn deaths are due to prematurity, asphyxia, complications during birth, or infections such as pneumonia, diarrhea, measles and neonatal disorders. These deaths can be prevented with access to well-trained midwives and nurses during antenatal and postnatal visits and delivering at a health facility. Additionally, access to clean water, and disinfectants, handwashing, breastfeeding within the first hour, skin-to-skin contact, proper cord care, and good nutrition are proven solutions. Too often, these simple cost-effective interventions are out of reach of the mothers and babies who need them most.

Too often simple cost-effective interventions are out of reach of the mothers and babies who need them most..

We support primary healthcare, particularly at the community level, to help achieve universal health coverage in Somalia. We also work with partners to strengthen health systems to deliver integrated and innovative services for Somali children, youths and women of reproductive age. The following are at the heart of our efforts to end preventable maternal, newborn and child deaths in Somalia.

Our Health & Nutrition programmes focus on the following key areas:

• Improving the availability and quality of essential medicines, vaccines, reproductive health commodities, medical equipment, and health infustructures
• Increase the availability and utilization of Health and nutrition services;
• Enhance availability, quality, and use of health information.
• Strengthen and expand the number of skilled and trained public health workers, and ensure equitable distribution across the regions we work in and to deliver high quality Health and nutrition services.