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Maternal & neonatal

Neonatal sepsis

Balanced: 3rd of 142Biggest burden: 28th of 142Most neglected: 10th of 142

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Healthy years lost (DALYs), 2023

22.7M

95% range 17.3M to 31.5M

Deaths, 2023

223k

People living with it, 2023

10.0M

GBD cause: Neonatal sepsis and other neonatal infections (broader match)

Research attention

Active clinical trials

53

All clinical trials, ever

281

Papers published, 2025

837

Active trials per million healthy years lost

2.3

Lower means fewer trials for the size of the problem

What there is to build on

Open Targets has no entry for this disease, so there is no target or drug data yet.

Identifiers

Read these numbers with care

Trial and paper counts are rough measures of attention, not of progress. This page is for research planning, not medical advice.