Extended 'Saving Newborn Lives in Refugee Settings' to Chad, Cameroon, and Niger — covering Lake Chad Basin refugees

Following the success of the South Sudan, Jordan, and Kenya pilot, the Gates Foundation funded an expansion of the 'Saving Newborn Lives in Refugee Settings' program to Chad, Cameroon, and Niger — three countries hosting refugees displaced by the Lake Chad Basin crisis and the Boko Haram insurgency. In northeastern Nigeria alone, over two million people had been internally displaced; hundreds of thousands had crossed into neighbouring Chad, Cameroon, and Niger. The expanded program trained health workers, strengthened facility-level maternity care, and integrated family planning services in refugee and IDP hosting communities where formal health infrastructure had been severely degraded.