Transforming Medical Care for Babies in African Hospitals

NEST360 is celebrating World Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC) Day to bring awareness to the life-saving benefits of skin-skin care. This day shines a light on hope and unity, bringing together families, healthcare professionals, and communities dedicated to improving kangaroo care and the quality of life of everyone involved.

Support NEST360 today and advance access to life-saving, quality care across Africa. Your gift, no matter the size makes a huge impact.

• $5 provides a new mother of a preterm baby with a wrap to enable skin-to-skin care (Kangaroo Mother Care)
• $10 provides a preterm baby with a day's worth of safe oxygen at a hospital with NEST360
• $30 gives life saving care for a preterm baby during a 5 day hospital admission
• $100 funds a hospital team of clinical health workers and biomedical engineers to be trained on quality newborn care
• $200 provides enables saving medical devices for a newborn unit of a hospital with NEST360

Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST360) is an Africa-led alliance working to end preventable newborn deaths in African hospitals. NEST360 works with governments to:

(1) install a package of life-saving medical devices,

(2) educate physicians, nurses, and engineers to use/maintain them, and

(3) use data dashboards at every hospital to empower teams to improve care and track progress towards evidence-based targets.

*Funding estimates are based on real costs in four NEST360 countries and rounded.