Impact
Kano State · since February 2026
Refreshed daily. All of our data is shared with the Kano State Ministry of Health.
Premature and underweight newborns enrolled in our Kangaroo Care program.
489 of 538
Newborns confirmed alive at their day-28 follow-up, the program’s core survival outcome.
777 of 810 newborns
Proportion of newborns who received Kangaroo Care.
614 of 745 newborns
Newborns whose Kangaroo Care averaged two hours or more across their days in hospital.
362 of 810
Newborns enrolled on the day of birth. Starting Kangaroo Care before a newborn is clinically stable, rather than after, reduces their risk of dying by 25%.
Newborns enrolled in the program who did not survive.
Outcomes
We compare outcomes against hospital baselines and estimates derived from authoritative data (UNICEF, NDHS). All data is shared with the Kano State Ministry of Health.
Our method for estimating national vulnerable neonatal mortality replicates the approach used by GiveWell here. We prospectively collect our hospital baseline ourselves. See methodology here.
Our hospital baseline comes from a hospital with both inborn and referred newborns, so to maximise comparability it leaves out newborns who died on day 0 or day 1 of life, sooner than we would have been able to register them. Unrestricted, mortality there was 26%.
