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Essential Newborn Care

Saving Newborns One Minute at a Time

Essential Newborn Care (ENC) is a suite of training course geared towards teaching local nurses, midwives, and traditional birth attendants in developing countries the most successful ways to save a newborn’s life in the first critical minute after birth, known as The Golden Minute. ENC is a Train-the-Trainer model, where U.S. trained facilitators travel to developing countries to train all who attend the births of babies. The end result is leaving them with the skills and education to train others in their communities, resulting in a sustainable program that repeats itself for years to come.

Project C.U.R.E. conducts ENC training in more than 15 countries worldwide to train local in-country nurses and birthing attendants on the HBS curriculum. Note: Open opportunities for ENC trips will be sent to our list of HBS Master Trainers when available.

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How does it work?

Help us as we work to use HBS techniques to save the lives of newborns and reduce the rate of infant mortality around the globe!

In 2010, the American Association of Pediatricians (AAP) initiated the Essential Newborn Care (ENC) in collaboration with numerous global health organizations. Among HBB’s partners are the World Health Organization (WHO) and the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

HBB is a direct response to the WHO’s estimate that 1 million babies die each year from birth asphyxia, with the goal of reducing the global child mortality rate by two-thirds before 2015.

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Our Partners

HBB Global Development Alliance

Project C.U.R.E is a proud partner of the HBB Global Development Alliance (GDA), a public-private partnership working towards achieving a significant reduction in neonatal mortality by increasing the availability of resuscitation to manage newborn asphyxia during birth.

Saving Mothers Giving Life Alliance

Project C.U.R.E. is also a proud partner of the Saving Mothers Giving Life (SMGL) Alliance, which is committed to saving women and newborn’s lives from complications of pregnancy and childbirth.

Generous Grants

Project C.U.R.E is able to provide HBS trainings worldwide in part thanks to generous grants from Ronald McDonald House Charities, Newmont Mining Company and Kinross Gold Corporation.

ENC Training in 2024

We provided the Healthy Babies Survive (HBS) Training in the following locations in 2024 to help decrease maternal and perinatal mortality rates.

  • Ghana | March 10-18
  • Ghana | April 6-14
  • Ghana | October 26-3
  • Ghana | November 2-10

We are working to schedule more trainings in 2025. If you are a certified trainer and interested in working with us, or you are a facility that is looking to be trained, please contact us at [email protected].

ENC Impact

Since 2013, we have trained over 1,450 in-country birth attendants in 18 countries and certified over 170 in-country Master Trainers. 

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Other Training Programs

We are always accepting applications for C.U.R.E. Clinics trips. Click below for more information on our upcoming Clinic Trips. Have questions? Please email us at [email protected].

At the heart of Project C.U.R.E. are people like you who are willing to get involved by donating or volunteering. Together we can change the world!

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