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