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GSK and Save the Children Partnership Working Together to Help Save One Million Children’S Lives February 2019 GSK and Save the Children Partnership GSK and Save the Children partnership Working together to help save one million children’s lives February 2019 GSK and Save the Children partnership A life-saving partnership Every day 15,000 children under the age of five die – most from preventable causes. That’s why Save the Children and GSK joined forces in 2013. By using GSK’s scientific and technical know- how and Save the Children’s on-the-ground presence Kevin Watkins, Rogerio Ribeiro, and expertise, we are finding new ways to bring down CEO Save the Children UK SVP Global Health, GSK the number of children dying from preventable diseases. Over the past five years we have achieved a great deal. And we need to carry on. By delivering long-term health programmes, helping to strengthen countries’ healthcare systems, finding new treatments and advocating for Over the past five years, the GSK and I’m really proud of this partnership and local, national and global change, we are determined Save the Children partnership has fought everything that we are doing for children to help build a world where no child under the age for children every single day. We have by bringing together our unique skills of five dies from preventable causes. reached over 2,800,000 children under and resources. “five with essential quality health services “ Through our work with Save the Children which includes treating over 187,800 in 45 countries, children are surviving children for malaria, pneumonia, or and growing up to live really healthy lives. diarrhoea. To do this, we have gone beyond But there’s a lot that the we can still do. the traditional corporate-NGO partnership As we move into the second phase of model and combined our skills, expertise this partnership, I’m sure we will have and resources to find new ways to reduce the opportunity to achieve even more child mortality. for children in some of the world’s most I am incredibly proud of all that we have deprived communities.” achieved – and I am looking forward Front cover to continuing this pioneering work.” A one day old baby sleeps at the Bungoma County Hospital, Kenya supported by GSK and Save the Children partnership. Photo: Siegfried Modola / Save the Children GSK and Save the Children partnership 1 Meeting Mckline “In August 2018, I was pleased and privileged to visit Bungoma County in Kenya. I had the opportunity to meet ‘Baby’ Mckline – the first baby born in Bungoma, Kenya in a hospital supported by our partnership. Not a baby any more, Mckline is four years old and a wonderful walking, talking, laughing and football-playing example of what this partnership is all about.” Rogerio Ribeiro SVP Global Health, GSK Since his birth on 4 July 2014, GSK and Catherine adds: “I saw many mothers Save the Children have stayed in touch die when they delivered at home. When with Mckline and his family and followed I gave birth, the nurses advised me to his progress as he grows and thrives. breastfeed for six months, which I did and I have also taken Mckline to the clinic for Mckline’s parents, Fredrick and Catherine, talk about their experience: “When Catherine all his vaccinations which were free from was pregnant, I advised her to go to the the time he was born. Although sometimes health facility and she managed to attend I lack transport and I have to walk for a long clinic sessions seven times before the distance to the hospital, I appreciate the delivery. When we came back from hospital, treatment and advice from the nurses.” my neighbours were surprised at the Fredrick agrees “Many mothers now come successful delivery of our son. They were to consult my wife and they accept her advice even more surprised that my wife gave birth to go to hospital whenever their children are to a 3kg baby and she did not undergo an sick, and even attend clinic when their child operation. Most people in our community view is small.” the hospital as a foreign and expensive place. They prefer going to the traditional midwives.” Photo: Siegfried Modola / Save the Children 2 GSK and Save the Children partnership Healthworker applies chlorhexidine to umbilical cord of newborn baby,Bungoma County, Kenya. Photo: Siegfried Modola / Save the Children GSK and Save the Children partnership 3 From mouthwash to potentially life-saving medicine Sylvia Chepwkemoi is 34 years old and lives in Bungoma County, Kenya with her son Brivian Kiplangat (4 months old) and three older children. Sylvia lost two of the six children to whom In 2012, a United Nations (UN) Commission Report she has given birth. Her first-born child’s umbilical named chlorhexidine for newborn cord care as an cord was infected and he died 11 days after birth. overlooked ‘life-saving commodity’ that, if more widely accessed and properly used, could potentially save Her most recent baby, Brivian, was born in a health 422,000 neonatal lives over five years. In response, facility in 2017, enabling Sylvia to access chlorhexidine GSK worked to reformulate the antiseptic solution used gel, which she applied to his umbilical cord. His cord did in its Corsodyl™ mouthwash into a gel (chlorhexidine not get infected and healed quickly. Sylvia is grateful her digluconate gel 7.1%, equivalent to 4% chlorhexidine), baby did not get sick and reports that he is doing well. incorporating Save the Children’s expertise in reaching Infection, a major cause of newborn mortality, can some of the most vulnerable and marginalised children. be caused by bacteria entering the body through Insights and guidance from Save the Children informed a newly-cut umbilical cord. This is more likely to key decisions in the development of this medicine. happen in low-income settings across sub-Saharan Over 30,000 newborns in Kenya have so far benefitted Africa and Asia where more births take place at home from the new chlorhexidine gel. and unsterile materials, such as dung and ash, may traditionally be used on the umbilical cord stump. Sylvia and Brivian. Photo: Ilan Godfrey / Save the Children 4 GSK and Save the Children partnership The first 5 years at a glance Over Over Over 2.8m 30,000 £300,000 children under five in newborns treated with saved by Save the Children 45 countries directly reformulation of 1 simple through supply and reached by the partnership ingredient, chlorhexidine, procurement advice to prevent umbilical infections from GSK Over Over 97,000 100 children under five fully immunised GSK PULSE volunteers placed with Save the Children since 2013 Over Over 187,000 £3.3m children treated for malaria, 2 signature programmes raised by GSK employees Over pneumonia or diarrhoea in the Democratic Republic in over 70 countries and Over of Congo and Kenya have matched by GSK 20,000 helped over 280,000 children healthworkers trained, 300,000 and over 12,000 community healthworkers children helped during and supported after emergencies GSK and Save the Children partnership 5 How together we are helping to save children’s lives By combining the expertise of GSK and Save the Children, in collaboration with Drive forward the research, Helping to create a world our other partners locally and globally, development and access where everyone has to deliver measurable impact of innovations to address access to the healthcare Universal Innovation critical gaps in knowledge they need, without risk health and research to reduce maternal and of financial hardship coverage child mortality Vision Strengthening health The end of preventable Use our collective power systems to deliver to create systemic change quality services for death for all children Health system Global thought for children’s health at a children and families in under five global level and inspire poorer communities and strengthening leadership others to act emergency settings Sharing GSK’s expertise in supply chain, procurement, Inspiring and engaging and management systems Supply, GSK employees to with Save the Children Employee volunteer and fundraise procurement engagement for greater efficency and and quality for the partnership cost saving Partnership evidence and impact tracker Track progress against our goals above to generate an evidence base for continuous learning and improvement 6 GSK and Save the Children partnership What we are doing in countries and communities Universal Health system health coverage strengthening (UHC) We are supporting governments in Our flagship programme in Nigeria We are strengthening health • Our health system strengthening countries where we work to achieve aims to drive transformational change systems in all contexts to programmes in over 25 countries, measurable progress towards for universal access to infectious increase our impact for children which are working to accelerate UHC – to help create a world in disease prevention, protection and in poorer communities and newborn and child survival for the which all people have access to the treatment – generating new evidence fragile emergency settings. hardest-to-reach communities health services, vaccinations and and scalable solutions to save through our joint areas of expertise We intend to help reduce the medicines they need, without risk children’s lives from leading causes deterioration of health services, • Increasing the global capacity of of financial hardship. of preventable death. and save lives during emergencies, our emergency preparedness and By leveraging each other’s unique In Ethiopia we are expanding our child when children and their families response capabilities, to play a key capabilities and our joint voice, we immunisation programme in some of are most vulnerable. role in effective and timely healthcare are combining programme activities, the hardest to reach areas, to increase responses when crises hit The activities span our programmes evidence generation and advocacy for access to critical vaccinations for across the world, including: • Piloting an approach to adapt the greater impact.
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