Progress in south Asia after the launch of the Global Every Newborn Action Plan

Since the launch of the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) at the World Health Assembly in 2014,1WHOEvery Newborn: An action plan to end preventable deaths. World Health Organization, Geneva2014https://www.everynewborn.org/every-newborn-action-plan/Google Scholar and, in 2015, the launch of the UN Secretary General's second Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health, there has been a renewed focus on improving newborn health globally.2Every Women Every ChildThe Global Strategy for Women's, Children's and Adolescents' Health (2016–2030). Every Women Every Child, 2015http://globalstrategy.everywomaneverychild.org/Google Scholar South Asia has reduced neonatal mortality since 1990, when more than 2 million newborn babies died in the first 28 days of life every year. By 2015 this number had halved.3UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UNIGME)Levels and trends in child…