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2011-09-05 16:25:03
"I'm a baby born in Africa. I was born in the bush of northern Uganda and my mother had complications in childbirth. And she nearly died and I would have died if people hadn't made a difference," she said.
She said having more midwives and healthcare workers in rural areas is critical. The third leading cause of death is infection.
"Here simple prevention – not delivering a baby onto a dirty floor, not putting dirty things on the cord, breastfeeding the baby, giving antibiotics – these are all things that would save these babies lives," she said.
Lawn is the head of Saving Newborn Lives, a program of Save the qweig0905 Children. She said more investment is needed. But she says that means investing in the "right things to do" for child and maternal care.
"This is particularly critical for the Millennium AAAAAAAAAAAAA Development Goals. We now only have four years left until that target in 2015," she said.
The report says even the United States is not immune from the problem. It says 19,000 newborns die in the U.S. each year. That's a higher newborn death rate than 40 other countries.fmdw110905 addjgvldo
