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Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere is uniquely placed to show that we can, and we must, end preventable maternal and newborn deaths. With over 50 countries prioritizing maternal and newborn heath and wellbeing, Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere will show that progress is possible, and share what it takes.
“EWENE ensures action for maternal and newborn health under one roof, so that we coordinate more effectively with local and international partners in places that need it
the most (…) Stronger partnership is more important now than ever, as we seek to reinvigorate progress towards the SDG
targets in the face of a dramatically constrained financial environment”.
WHO Director-General, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on World Health Day 2025.
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Stories of progress and impact in counties. LINK TO TAGGED WHD stories.
A webinar series in which countries share how they are making progress for women and newborns despite drastic cuts in development aid. LINK TO THE WEBINAR SERIES
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Help shape the event in May 2026, and encourage your partners to take part, with the IMNHC 2026 promotional kit.
Side-event during the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development
Side-event during the Innovation and Action for Immunization and Child Survival Forum, Mozambique.
UNFPA released the Maternal and Newborn Health Fund Annual Impact Report 2024. Since 2010, countries supported by the Maternal and Newborn Health Fund have reduced maternal mortality by 40%, nearly twice the global rate, contributing to avert an estimated 75,000 maternal deaths. The Maternal and Newborn Health Fund is UNFPA’s flagship initiative to expand equitable access to quality reproductive, maternal, and newborn healthcare.
The World Health Organization maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health e-handbook is a new resource for Ministry of health programme managers. It offers step-by-step guidance for implementing effective health programmes, from planning to monitoring and evaluation, with concise overviews of key activities and interventions along the life course.
The e-handbook references WHO documents, to ensure that programme managers have access to evidence-based strategies and best practices tailored to various contexts.
This e-handbook contains a prioritised list of documents; for a full list of documents go to the resource library for maternal, newborn, child, adolescent health and ageing: https://uhcc.who.int/mca/
A new journal supplement, “Born Too Soon: progress, priorities and pivots for preterm birth,” led by PMNCH, was published in BMC Reproductive Health last month. The supplement adapts and expands the content from the 2023 World Health Organization “Born Too Soon: A Decade of Action on Preterm Birth.”
Photo © 2020 WHO / Tatiana Almeida. Midwives in Hope Field Hospital, Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in September 2020.
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Midwives during WHO Head of Sub-Office Dr Kai von Harbou visit to Hope Field Hospital
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