Strategic planning for saving the lives of mothers, newborns and children and preventing stillbirths in KwaZulu-Natal province South Africa: modelling using the Lives Saved Tool (LiST)

Table 3 Ranked additional lives saved per LiST intervention by maternal and child lives saved and stillbirths prevented 2019 if fully scaled up to achievable levels from baseline

Rank	Interventions saving maternal lives	Total lives saved	% of lives saved	Interventions saving child lives (0–60 months)	Total lives saved	% of lives saved	Interventions preventing stillbirths	Total lives saved	% of lives saved
1	Early detection and treatment of HIV (pregnant women)	69	23.2	ORS - oral rehydration solution	877	12.5	Labour and delivery management^a	779	37.9
2	Labour and Delivery Management^a	53	17.8	Promotion of breastfeeding	655	9.3	Syphilis detection and treatment	764	37.2
3	TB treatment in pregnant women	43	14.4	Full supportive care for sepsis and pneumonia	559	7.9	All other interventions (5)	511	24.9
4	Safe abortion services	30	10	Handwashing with soap	434	6.1
5	Maternal sepsis Case management	23	7.7	Oral Antibiotics: Case management of pneumonia in children	421	6.0
6	All other interventions (9)	79	27	Therapeutic feeding for severe wasting	416	5.9
7				Pneumococcal Vaccine	403	5.7
8				Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)	362	5.1
9				Neonatal resuscitation	350	5.0
10				Labour and Delivery Management^a	317	4.5
11				Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC)	306	4.3
12				PMTCT	288	4.1
13				All other interventions (23)	1655	23.5
	Maternal lives saved by top 5 interventions 2015-2019	218	74	Child lives saved by top 12 interventions 2015-2019	5388	77	Stillbirths prevented by top 3 interventions 2015-2019	1543	75
	Total maternal lives saved 2015-2019	297	100	Total child Lives saved 2015-2019	7 043	100	Total stillbirths prevented 2015-2019	2 054	100

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