Unfortunately, child survival programs in the developing world have focused primarily on pneumonia, diarrhea, malaria, and vaccine-preventable causes of deaths after the first month of life, while safe motherhood programs have focused primarily on the mother. Prevention of newborn deaths has thus dropped between the cracks of programs focusing on mothers and on older children.
不幸的是，发展中国家的儿童存活项目大多集中在出生一个月后发生的肺炎、痢疾、疟疾以及可以通过疫苗防治的死亡原因上，而安全母婴项目大多集中于母亲身上。防治新生儿死亡因此就只能位居母亲和稍大一点的儿童之后了。