The USAID Global Health Development Innovation Accelerator Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Addendum 03

Funding Opportunity Number: BAA-GLOBALHEALTH-2016 Opportunity Category: OtherFunding Instrument Type: OtherCategory of Funding Activity: HealthCFDA Number: 98.001Eligible Applicants Unrestricted (i.e., open to any type of entity above), subject to any clarification in text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility"Agency Name: USAIDClosing Date: Feb 29, 2016Award Ceiling: $0Expected Number of Awards: Creation Date: Jan 08, 2016Funding Opportunity Description: Addendum No. 3 - Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development to the USAID GH DIA BAA Summary Introduction: United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Government of Norway, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Grand Challenges Canada, UK’s Department of International Development (DFID), and the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) have joined together to launch the sixth round of Saving Lives at Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development. Together, we call for groundbreaking prevention and treatment approaches for pregnant women and newborns in poor, hard-to-reach communities around the time of childbirth. An estimated 2.6 million stillbirths, 2.7 million neonatal deaths and 303,000 maternal deaths occur globally each year, signaling a major gap in interventions specifically around childbirth and the early postnatal period – a time when mothers and babies are most vulnerable and global progress in reducing mort...
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