GlaxoSmithKline and Save the Children name Healthcare Innovation Award winners

GlaxoSmithKline has announced the winners of the third annual $1 million (712,900 pounds) Healthcare Innovation Award scheme it runs in partnership with Save the Children.

The scheme recognises innovations from developing countries that are helping to reduce deaths among children under five, and comes as part of a wider five-year partnership to help save one million children's lives.

Immreg, a paperless immunisation records system in Vietnam, won $400,000 – the largest share of the award – with $226,600 allocated to the creators of the Pratt pouch, a foil pouch for accurately giving HIV medicines to newborns in Ecuador.

Meanwhile, grants of $176,600 were presented to Operation Karibu, an integrated care package for mothers and newborns in Kenya, and to Child PIP, a new tool for better understanding child deaths in South Africa.

Lisa Bonadonna, head of the GlaxoSmithKline-Save the Children partnership, said: "We look forward to seeing them scale up and share their fantastic ideas, as previous winners have already gone on to do."

Since 2013, more than a dozen schemes and innovations have been recognised through this awards programme.