Global Strategy. The design of a web-based electronic platform to organize and consolidate national profiles and plans of action has 10 countries have updated national profiles up to this point: Colombia, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Nicaragua4*, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname With the information received from national neonatal profiles, PAHO is now moving to complete the Regional level analysis. A position paper analyzing the regional situation and challenges on newborn health has been presented. A regional map of key indicators aiming to describe inequity in newborn health has been completed. A technical document on Regional and National estimates on the potential impact of implementing Evidence Based The progress mentioned is based on the year’s work plan, discussed and approved with USAID. Due to updates in the work plan, the main progress is not exactly related to the indicator. However, they are aligned with the outcome defined. The results from this outcome developed during Year 4 will be the inputs for guiding the discussion at regional and national level. These products are expected to contribute to improving national capacity for planning and defining goals and strategies during Year 5. 4 USAID funding was not used to support Nicaragua. Indicator Progress Number of Countries (when applicable) Comments (including constraints) been designed and is under development. This platform will contribute of the process of the final evaluation of the Regional Strategy and Plan of Action of Newborn Health. Based on the updated Annual Plan of Action, a technical meeting was held in Panama on 18 and 19 August 2015 jointly with USAID and The Regional Neonatal Alliance, in order to evaluate national experiences and lessons learned on surveillance on neonatal mortality in Latin America and the Caribbean. The discussion and experience have provided inputs to start planning future steps in order to strengthen surveillance in the region. A training program for the establishment of surveillance of deaths at birth, including prematurity has been developed and the workshop will be held in Costa Rica during November 2015. interventions on newborn health has been completed. A systematic review on cost of newborn care and the design of a methodological tool to evaluate costs of newborn care has been developed. 4.1 Number of countries that have updated their national plans to reduce maternal mortality and morbidity (Year 4 Milestone: Monitoring and evaluation of the first results of the implemented plan, with at least 10 countries having updated plans at the end of four years) Twelve countries have updated national plans for the reduction of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity. In some cases the updating was total, while in others the updating was centered in the improvement of the epidemiological knowledge of severe maternal morbidity, in order to offer best interventions during the health care process for pregnant women. 12: Costa Rica, Ecuador5*, El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua*, Panama, Peru, Saint Lucia, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago and Uruguay. Although all countries of the Americas unanimously approved the Regional plan for the acceleration of the reduction of maternal mortality and severe maternal morbidity in 2011 at PAHO’s Governing Bodies Meeting, many of them have yet to modify previous national plans until the end of its validity, even if they are not getting good results.
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