Helping Babies Breathe Initiative Employs Global Development Alliance Model

In a post on USAID's "IMPACTblog," Amanda Makulec of John Snow Inc. describes the Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) initiative, which was developed "to equip birth attendants in developing countries with the skills they need to successfully resuscitate babies born without the ability to breathe on their own." She continues, "[I]t was the power of the Global Development Alliance (GDA) model -- public-private partnership on a global scale -- that dramatically expanded access to newborn resuscitation in remote health facilities and communities in 34 countries within 18 months of the launch of the partnership ... by leveraging the commitment, resources, and support of a diverse group of program implementers, NGOs, private sector organizations, government institutions, U.N. agencies, professional associations to enable the rapid roll out of the intervention globally" (4/30).