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Ismaziah, a community nurse and midwife, assesses the child’s health and runs through the standard medical protocol checklist.

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Every Woman Every Newborn in Kenya

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This profile was developed in May 2023, using data from 2018-2023.

National mortality targets

Maternal mortality ratio

100 per 100,000 live births by 2025

Stillbirth
rate

7 PER 1,000 total births by 2023

Neonatal mortality rate

12 per 1,000 live births by 2023

Progress to meet the national maternal, newborn mortality and stillbirth reduction targets

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Progress to meet Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere coverage targets

MNH Acceleration Plan highlights

Build or strengthen the capacity of health facilities to implement high-impact maternal and newborn health interventions.

Map and review the available data at facility and community levels to prioritize interventions.

Strengthen the collection of routine service delivery data and ensure it is utilized for continuous quality improvement and decision-making.

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Quality of care in Kenya

Kenya is one of the 11 countries that set up the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (Quality of Care Network). Kenya’s successes in improving quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health are essential to help reduce maternal and newborn mortality and stillbirths. These include:

The adoption of the World Health Organization’s standards to improve quality of maternal and newborn care, small and sick newborns care, and children and young adolescents care in health facilities.
A focus on addressing post-partum haemorrhage, with the creation of a plan to improve the quality of post-partum haemorrhage prevention, identification, and management.

News and events

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January 28, 2025

This is your chance to contribute to the Lancet Commission for Evidence-based Implementation. Take this short survey, available in English, Arabic, Chinese, French , Hindi,

Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere Results Framework, 2022-2025

December 11, 2024

The Results Framework for EWENE, detailing deliverables for each of the ten milestones: Policy and plans, Investment, Response and Resilience, Quality of care, Health workforce,

Six years to the SDG deadline: Six actions to reduce unacceptably high maternal, newborn and child deaths and stillbirths

May 19, 2024

A two-pager published by ENAP EPMM and Child Survival Action ahead of the World Health Assembly 2024.

Guidance on developing national learning health-care systems to sustain and scale up delivery of quality maternal, newborn and child health care

May 3, 2022

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Photo © 2020 WHO / Tatiana Almeida
Midwives during WHO Head of Sub-Office Dr Kai von Harbou visit to Hope Field Hospital

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Every Woman Every Newborn in Kenya