| Reporting Organization: | Aga Khan Foundation Canada |
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| Total Budget ($CAD): | $ 1,999,992 |
| Timeframe: | February 15, 2019 - September 30, 2022 |
| Status: | Implementation |
| Contact Information: | Unspecified |
| Pakistan - $ 1,999,992.00 (100.00%) | |
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The integrated neonatal care kit (iNCK) contains a bundle of interventions that have individually been shown to: a) reduce the incidence of neonatal insults including death, infection, and hypothermia; b) provide early identification of criteria indicative of newborn danger including fever, hypothermia, or low birth weight; or c) enable the management of newborn danger signs (i.e., cold stress, moderate or severe hypothermia) until health care can be sought.
This partnership with Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is empowering women with the tools and knowledge needed to improve their newborn’s chance of survival, through access to and use of the iNCK. Key activities include:
Distributing the iNCK to approximately 37,000 pregnant women in Afghanistan and Pakistan using a stepped wedge cluster randomized trial
Training existing health workers – who will subsequently train expectant mothers – on how to use the iNCK effectively
Increasing compliance to recommended use throughout the transition to scale.
| Gender and age: | Adult women Adolescent females Newborns |
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| Descriptors: | Rural |
| Total Direct Population: | 37,000 |
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Return to topiNCK will work through 1,388 LHWs/ CHWs to deliver and use iNCK to approximately 37,000 women in select districts of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan
