A fully funded WHO can save an additional 40 million lives over the next 4 years.

For more than a decade our partnership with the Gates Foundation has made real progress in healthcare for children.

The launch of the Civil Society Commission by the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) in September 2023 was a historic moment.

Mahama II Health Centre has revolutionised maternal and newborn care at Rwanda’s largest refugee camp.

This World Health Day Save the Children announces a new partnership with Sanofi’s Global Health Unit in Yemen’s Taiz Governorate.

A look back at some of the amazing achievements made possible for children every minute, every day, all around the world.

We share why meaningful adolescent engagement is vital to our work - with insights from our programmes in Bolivia, India and Tanzania.

The importance of upholding adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) cannot be overstated.

Taking action: How we can help support mothers, caregivers and families in the best way through the challenges they face

Bolder action is needed to drive down poverty and invest in all families being financially secure.

Progress in reducing maternal deaths between 2000 and 2015 will not hold without dedicated commitment from global health leaders.

The world was underprepared to respond to epidemics and maintain essential health services. This led to the 13 November launch of the Pandemic Fund.

The government of Nigeria’s approval during the covid surge of $17 million to set up oxygen plants must now move beyond the contracting stage.

Save the Children World Pharmacist Day Campaign

Our Head of Conflict and Humanitarian Policy and Advocacy updates on what progress is being made on addressing issues around children being killed and injured in war

Poverty and the climate emergency are two sides of the same coin, that can and need to be addressed together.

Suzi Murning looks at what policies the Scottish Government should announce as part of the Emergency Budget Review to protect children living in poverty.

Challenge Poverty Week 2022: Listening to parents real life experience of poverty in the UK, and using these to take action.

Right now, 20 million people in East Africa are facing soaring levels of hunger as an exceptionally long and severe drought grips the region.

The stories of three Nigerian mothers – Victoria, Hazidah and Isabella – show why it's critical we promote, protect and support breastfeeding.

It’s breastfeeding week. A time to focus on protecting, promoting and supporting mothers to breastfeed.

We all have the power to affect change. Let's use that power to take action for the 1.7 million children suffering from extreme hunger in East Africa.

Scaling up immunisation coverage and uptake in Nigeria is not just a goal, it's an imperative.

Two years on from the start of the pandemic, do we return to the status quo or drive forward, ever more ambitious to realise a healthier world?

We call on donors to halt this rollback of support and explore new avenues of sustainable financing for health.

Concerted action gives us hopes that reaching zero-dose children can become a reality. We aim to do things differently, trying new approaches and learning from the past

Together, we can get progress for children back on track.

Devastating flooding and conflict force children and their families to flee their homes for safety, but access to medicines and healthcare becomes problematic.

A clear guide on how we can most effectively channel our compassion to best support Ukrainian refugees.

The stories behind the photographs by world-renowned photographer Jim Hoylebroek highlighting the human tragedy unfolding in Afghanistan.

With GSK Support, Save the Children have been working to improve the access and the quality of the healthcare for new parents and babies.

Kangaroo mother care is a high-impact, low-tech, cost-effective intervention for saving premature babies.

Boresha project in Kenya is part of a wider partnership between GSK and Save the Children with the shared ambition of ending preventable deaths of children under 5.

UHC is the principle that everyone, everywhere should have access to quality essential health services without experiencing financial hardship, and according to the WHO

To meet the needs of the world’s 1.2 billion adolescents, governments and donors must make the right investments in the right places at the right time. That time is now

6 months ago the world was shocked by images of overburdened crematoriums and dead bodies floating up in the Ganges. But today India reached a covid-vaccine landmark

For Sahra, the climate crisis is already here. Her childhood and her future are under threat from weather extremes brought on by climate change.

Save the Children welcomes high-level political engagement to ensure equitable access to all Covid-19 tools and help bring an end to the pandemic.

Mesfin Nigussie discusses the challenges children face in the Afar region in Ethopia, and the work Save the Children is doing with the government to make a difference.

The only way to be prepared for a third Covid wave is to strengthen the entire health system by allocating much needed resources now.

Communities in Somali Region, Ethiopia, came together to successfully campaign for much-needed increases to the region’s health budget.

A new study in Nigeria shows how a more sophisticated approach to measuring oxygen availability may help us understand – and address – catastrophic bottlenecks.

Today, we publish our 2020 Annual Report and I’m incredibly proud of what my colleagues have achieved over the past year, through resilience, solidarity, and teamwork.

Community health workers in Yemen save lives. They are the unsung heroes providing care for communities living through conflict and political turmoil.

We approve the Biden administration's backing of the waiving of intellectual property rights to COVID-19 vaccines - but other countries must now follow suit.

Habi Patel reflects on the devastating situation unfolding in India and how it is personally affecting her family.

Find out how Save the Children helped to support nine month old Fatima* and her family after drought destroyed their livestock.

Three weeks ago, Indonesia received 1.6 million doses of pneumonia vaccine. It’s a significant event for children’s survival.

Somalia's immunisation infrastructure urgently needs to be strengthened to roll out routine immunisation, including the newer PCV and COVID-19 vaccines.

As we work to expand access to COVID-19 vaccines, we must not lose sight of the value of routine childhood vaccines and the urgency to scale up access to them.

This World Immunisation Week, we’re celebrating vaccines by answering some tricky questions. Read on to understand more about this amazing intervention.

For those of us who believe in child rights and universal rights more widely, this is a time to demonstrate that human solidarity can make a difference.

Save the Children held a critical conversation about how to rebuild a better world for the children of the Covid generation. Here are seven things we learnt.

This Saturday - Universal Health Coverage Day - let's be clear about one thing: universal health coverage is a political choice.

Yesterday, November 12th, was World Pneumonia Day. Save the Children joined with partners around the world to draw attention to childhood pneumonia.

With the development of a new vaccine to protect against childhood pneumonia, India has provided a lifeline to combat the world’s biggest infectious killer of children

Data on inequalities is extremely important for accountability to children. Our analysis shows that the availability of such data is still extremely patchy.

The time has come for a fundamental review of debt sustainability, followed by coordinated action covering all creditors to restructure and reduce debt.

It may seem like a simple act, but handwashing has always been a critical life-saving intervention to stop the spread of disease.

New analysis suggests that planned investment in children’s health, education and wellbeing in countries across the world will not be enough.

Why the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office must champion public financing for health to end preventable child deaths globally

Vaccines don’t just save lives - they give communities the chance to thrive.

We can learn a lot about how to respond to COVID-19, as we found out when we spoke to children in Ethiopia about delivering healthcare during the pandemic.

The latest findings from our live tracker on the impact of COVID-19 on children.

It’s estimated that in India the use of medical oxygen could reduce child deaths from pneumonia by at least 35%.

People living in precarious conditions in the DRC cannot cope with the further threats of COVID-19. But children are showing their ingenuity at this time of crisis.

COVID-19 is exposing and exacerbating existing inequalities that put girls at risk of gender-based violence, threatening to set back decades of progress.

Our analysis confirms our fears: everywhere we look, the uptake of essential, lifesaving health services has suffered from the COVID-19 pandemic and social distancing

The Rohingya refugee camps, which are home to more than 855,000 refugees, are the perfect environment for coronavirus to spread like wildfire.

By Sukaina Sharafuddin – Media and communications coordinator at Save the Children in Yemen I gave birth to my son four years ago, amid a background of falling bombs. Since that day, I have been praying for him and us to live long enough to see the other side of the war that has been […]

The desperate plight of migrant workers and their families in India in the coronavirus crisis and how we're responding.

The impact of Covid-19 on families with young children is profound - alongside Marcus Rashford's campaign, now is the time to throw children in poverty a lifeline.

COVID-19 threatens children’s rights everywhere, but the impact of the disease is felt most keenly in low-income countries.

As South Sudan responds to the COVID-19 pandemic, it faces 7 threats to its health system.

Alongside the global COVID-19 response, donors and governments must prioritise reproductive health services and address pressing needs of women and girls.

There is much we should learn from how African countries have fought epidemics.

As the world focuses its energy on a COVID-19 vaccine – which it certainly should – we must not ease off on other vaccines.

How we're reaching children and mothers in remote communities in Ethiopia with life-saving vaccines and other essential healthcare.

Now, more than ever, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we need to protect essential services like immunisation and ensure equitable access for the most vulnerable.

We reached out to our friends at Arsenal and co-created a physical education class which will be broadcast to millions of children isolating at home in Jordan.

This blog is co-authored by Ariane McCabe, PhD, Director of Global Health and Public Affairs, GSK Vaccines and by Claire Leonie Ward, PhD, Health Advocacy Adviser at Save the Children UK. As the world’s attention and resources are focused on tackling the global pandemic, what does this mean for those most at risk of exposure […]

Today is the International Day of the Midwife and 2020 is the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife. It should be a time to celebrate. For most women, birth is uncomplicated and welcoming their new baby into the world is a joyful event which midwives are privileged to witness and be a part of. […]

The federal government and all states must act swiftly to put systems in place to ensure uninterrupted financial flows to the primary health care level.

New research and estimates on the potential socio-economic impact of COVID-19 across child poverty, health & nutrition, education and protection.

Dayo Mohamed, a 38-year-old health extension worker in Ethiopia’s Somali Region, has served his community for almost 12 years. The incidence of vaccine-preventable diseases has dropped significantly.

Bangladesh’s success in expanding the pneumococcal vaccine has been a huge step forward in reducing child deaths from pneumonia. But further work is needed.

Over the last 3 years, we’ve worked with the government of Bangladesh and other partners to develop the National Strategy for Community Health Workers.

Why keeping existing health programmes going in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic is imperative to avoid millions of deaths worldwide. The coronavirus has been spreading rapidly across the world and numbers of confirmed cases and deaths keep rising. As we all witnessed countries shutting down in an effort to slow the progression of the […]

“Adapt, Improvise, Overcome – the human spirit will always survive” These are the words of advice a colleague who worked in Ebola affected areas sent to me at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. I expected something much more technical and practical. He is right of course. At a certain point, it’s the spirit and […]

At a time when COVID-19 has got every nation – and everyone – talking corona, the debate about access to medicines has jumped to the top of the agenda. It’s a big shift. And a big opportunity.

We are living through extraordinary times. In the space of a few short months the Coronavirus pandemic has spread to almost every country in the world, bringing grief, suffering, and economic chaos in its wake. In the UK our National Health Service, and everyone working in it, has come under enormous pressure. Recession and the […]

In low-income countries, poor people often face problems with both money and the availability of food. We need to think carefully about food and livelihoods before COVID-19 starts to hit poor countries in Africa and South Asia.

Protecting a generation from Covid-19 : An Agenda for Action from Save the Children Coronavirus knows no borders. It is a global threat and our shared humanity demands a global response. New research: 3 million lives at risk The virus is already having devastating consequences for children and their rights. Health systems, even in rich […]

What does the coronavirus pandemic tell us about global health priorities? And what needs to change?

I very much hope you and your loved ones are safe, healthy and coping with the big changes coronavirus has brought into our lives. I wanted to take this opportunity to update you on how Save the Children is responding to the coronavirus pandemic. Our organisation, like every organisation, business, and household in the UK, […]

Our five new partnership research papers give extensive and directly applicable evidence on what works in reducing childhood pneumonia in Nigeria.

The impact of an outbreak of coronavirus on children in countries with weak health systems could be severe.

Approval of a new pneumococcal vaccine that promises lower immunisation costs has unleashed a powerful new weapon in the fight against childhood pneumonia.

Five years ago governments made an important promise to the world’s children. Enshrined in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the world’s ambitious but achievable targets for 2030 embraced by 193 countries, is a pledge to end the scourge of preventable child deaths. Redeeming the pledge will take a concerted drive to combat pneumonia, the deadliest […]

At the first ever global forum on pneumonia, leading agencies including Save the Children and UNICEF are meeting to boost efforts in the fight against the disease. This comes after new analysis from Johns Hopkins University found that nine million lives could be saved by scaling up the fight against the childhood pneumonia. PNEUMONIA DEATHS […]

Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, has helped immunise 760 million children. But one child in ten is unvaccinated. Continued and increased investment is needed.

If you want a window on the condition of children in Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, there is no better vantage point than the Katanga health centre in the impoverished northern state of Jigawa. In a makeshift hut that passes for a nutrition clinic, a group of 25 women wait with their children. Tiny bodies bearing […]

Pneumonia is the world’s deadliest disease but it’s often a forgotten epidemic. Every year it kills more children than any other illness. To put this into context, one child dies from pneumonia every 39 seconds.Despite these horrific stats, many people don’t realise the huge, damaging affect the disease has on children. A recent poll […]

How are Save the Children using innovation to save lives? Through our partnership with GSK, we’re bringing together our unique skills and resources to find new ways to help stop children dying from preventable diseases. Save the Children has 100 years of experience in supporting some of the world’s most vulnerable children. GSK is a […]

We need people to access health services at the right time, not wait until pain or suffering forces them to borrow money or sell assets, and the condition has become too serious.

Global Hand washing day and World Toilet day raise awareness of the facts and the essential interventions to prevent death and disease from water borne disease. These days aren’t glamorous, but they are fun and effective ways to prevent diarrhoea. The stats speak for themselves Diarrhoea causes 8% of under-five deaths; diarrhoea and pneumonia combined […]