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 2 Ranked additional lives saved per LiST intervention by maternal and child lives saved and stillbirths prevented 2019 if fully scaled up (95 %) 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	Labour and delivery management^a	146	25.4	Promotion of breastfeeding	1332	10.9	Labour and delivery management^a	2132	47.1
2	Early detection and treatment of HIV (pregnant women)	137	23.8	Hand washing with soap	909	7.4	Syphilis detection and treatment	962	21.3
3	TB treatment in pregnant women	83	14.4	Labour and delivery management^a	895	7.3	Foetal growth restriction detection and management	577	12.8
4	Safe abortion services	58	10.1	Water connection in the home	867	7.1	All other interventions (5)	785	17
5	Inter-facility transport	26	4.5	Antiretroviral Therapy (ART)	721	5.9
6	All other interventions (9)	110	19	Antenatal corticosteroids for preterm labour	636	5.2
7				Full supportive care for sepsis/pneumonia	609	5.0
8				Pneumococcal Vaccine	598	4.9
9				Therapeutic feeding - for severe wasting	552	4.5
10				ORS - oral rehydration solution	540	4.4
11				PMTCT - Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV	461	3.8
12				Improved sanitation - Utilization of latrines or toilets	458	3.7
13				All other interventions (23)	3662	30
	Maternal lives saved by top five interventions 2015-2019	450	81	Child lives saved by top 12 interventions 2015-2019	8578	70	Stillbirths prevented by top 3 interventions 2015-2019	3671	83
	Total maternal lives saved 2015-2019	560	100	Total child Lives saved 2015-2019	12240	100	Total stillbirths prevented 2015-2019	4456	100

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