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Every Woman Every Newborn in Uganda

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

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National mortality targets

Maternal
mortality ratio

219 per 100,000 live births
by 2025

Stillbirth
rate

No data

Neonatal mortality rate

18 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

In 2024, the priorities in Uganda’s MNH Acceleration Plan include:  

  • Scale up high-impact interventions for small and sick newborns
  • Improve the quality of emergency obstetric and newborn care and the care of the small and sick newborn.
  • Improve the quality of the data, particularly on stillbirth registration, civil registration and vital statistics and Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response. 
  • Develop an investment case for newborn health.

©UNICEF/Quarmyne. Redait Tsegay, beneficiary, going to a health center, Neqsege

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Quality of care in Uganda

Uganda is one of the 11 countries that set-up the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. Ghana’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:

  • A National Quality of Care Framework & Strategic Plan is implemented.
  • 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 are adopted.
  • A National Safe Motherhood Executive Committee set up – a team of experts that supports the development and review of clinical guidelines, monitors maternal and newborn health and follows-up on actions to accelerate the reduction of mortality and morbidity in mothers and children.
  • A first cycle of quality improvement mentorship for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health was conducted to build capacity of frontline teams to provide quality care, and grow the local capacity to cascade and sustain the intervention.
  • Quality of care activities for maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCAH) expanded as part of the National RMNCAH/Global Financing Facility investment case.
  • Advocacy is underway for a customized approach to implementing MPDSR in Ugandan refugee settings in order to best serve the immediate needs of people in crisis, and support health-care providers in providing care to the most vulnerable populations.

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Resources

Compendium on respectful maternal and newborn care

August 7, 2025

The compendium supports efforts to end mistreatment and achieve respectful maternal and newborn care. It is published by WHO together with UNFPA, UNICEF and the United Nations’ Special Programme on Human Reproduction (HRP), with support from Jhpiego and the MOMENTUM Country and Global Leadership programme. 

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