Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)

Australia

SIDS Australia Online

This site, aimed at health professionals, researchers and parents, contains information, resources and links to SIDS organisations and SIDS research within Australia and globally. The National SIDS Council of Australia Ltd maintains the site which also links to the Red Nose Day website.

Sids and Kids

SIDS and Kids is a national body providing information on SIDS research, Safe Sleeping Health Promotion Program, public awareness, strategies to reduce infant mortality in Indigenous families and educational resource materials. Provides advocacy about SIDS and Kids issues particularly to the media and Government.

Also manages the international website SIDS Iinternational

International

American Academy of Pediatrics - AAP

Search for Sudden infant death in this site for policy statements, clinical reports, practice guidelines, technical reports and parents pages.

Association of SIDS and Infant Mortality Programs - ASIP

"ASIP is an association of health and human service professionals, who together promote programs of counseling, education, advocacy and research, with the purposes of ensuring a supportive community response for those affected by infant and child death and reducing the risk of death for future children."

 

American SIDS Institute

This comprehensive U.S. site contains information and resources on the promotion of infant health and the prevention of SIDS through research, clinical services and professional and community education. Contains links to a range of SIDS-related sites internationally.

Canadian Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths

"The Canadian Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths is dedicated to improving infant mortality and reducing the rate of sudden and unexpected infant deaths, and to the emotional support of those who are affected. We promote and support high quality and innovative research into the cause(s) of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) and its effects on families; conduct public education and awareness programs about issues relating to Infant Death; provide current and accurate information and emotional support to families who have suffered the devastating experience of an infant death"

 

CJ Foundation for SIDS

"The Foundation has become the largest non-government funder of programs meeting the needs of the SIDS community. The CJ Foundation contributes its resources to investigators researching the causes of SIDS and its cure. As research has indicated that risk reduction is possible, CJ Foundation is committed to developing, implementing and providing funding for education and awareness programs so that the message of risk reduction reaches every potential population."

Fastats : Fast Stats on Infant Mortality

"The Faststats site provides quick access to statistics on topics of public health importance and is organized alphabetically. Links are provided to publications that include the statistics presented, to sources of more data, and to related web pages." Administered by the National Center for Disease Statistics. US Dept Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

 

National Institute of Child Health & Human Development- SIDS Fact Sheet

Information on SIDS, risk reduction, sleeping environments, publications & materials, news releases and web sites. Sponsored by the National Institute of health.

 

National SIDS Resource Center -NSIDRC

NSIDRC Web site at the National Center for Education in Maternal and Child Health, Georgetown University. Information collected from national, state, and local SIDS/Infant Death programs, as well as perinatal, stillbirth, maternal and child health, and bereavement organizations.

SIDS Center of New Jersey - SIDSCNJ

"The SIDS Center of New Jersey is a program of the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, NJ and The Joseph M. Sanzari Children's Hospital Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ." The site provides information in three main areas; support, research and education.

 

SIDS glossary

A glossary adapted from the article SIDS: Trying to Understand the Mystery.

 

SIDS International - SIDSI

Sponsored by the National SIDS Council of Australia. The aim of SIDSI is to "facilitate the international sharing of information on SIDS and SUDI related issues pertaining to statistical information, research, counselling, support, education and service provision."

SIDS Network

The website contains SIDS & OID information and FAQs. Also provides support for the bereaved.

First Candle - helping babies survive and thrive

"The organization has committed its resources – both human and financial – in the hopes of having an impact (similar to the impact it had and continues to have on SIDS rates) on all areas of infant death ... including stillbirth and miscarriage." Previously known as SIDS Alliance