[1] The WHO recommend that unimmunized pregnant women receive tetanus toxoid in the pregnancy to prevent the disease in their baby once born.

UNICEF took the lead, assisted by other United Nations agencies, individual governments, and non-profit organisations.

Education and immunisation campaigns have been launched in the remaining countries at risk and are targeted particularly at pregnant women.

[1] Education focuses on hygienic birth practices and infant cord care as well as the need for immunisation.

[7] In Egypt, the number of cases of neonatal tetanus dropped from 4,000 to fewer than 500 annually as the result of an immunisation campaign.

[9] In 2010, Kiwanis International pledged to raise $110 million to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus throughout the world in partnership with UNICEF.

[11] The national health programme was started in 1983 by the Government of India, when all pregnant women were given two doses of tetanus vaccine.