Building Local Capacity with Helping Babies Survive

Abstract

Background: Health care workforce training is essential in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Professional organizations, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) all assist with training, but often lack the capacity to fully disseminate basic skills and knowledge. Collaboration between Latter-day Saint Charities (LDSC) and LMIC in-country partners has increased training, improved outcomes, and built capacity in the partners. Since the launch of Helping Babies Breathe (HBB) LDSC has sponsored HBB training courses in 68 countries. LDSC has also sponsored training in all modules of Helping Babies Survive (HBS) and in Helping …