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©UNICEF/Paul. A nurse provides essential newborn care right after delivery in the operating room at Thakurgaon District Hospital, Bangladesh, in September 2014.

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Every Woman Every Newborn in Bangladesh

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MNH Acceleration Plan highlights

In 2026, the priorities in Bangladesh’s MNH Acceleration Plan include:

Recruit and deploy an adequate number of midwives at different tiers of health facilities for fully functional midwifery-led comprehensive maternal and newborn care.
Optimise emergency obstetric and newborn care by using geographical information to identify targeted comprehensive emergency obstetric and newborn care facilities.
Convert special care newborn units into mother-special care newborn units promoting immediate kangaroo mother care.
Strengthen the referral network by outsourcing ambulance services.

©UNICEF/Quarmyne. Pregnant women attending an antenatal clinic at a Reproductive and Child Health facility in Savelugu, in the Northern Region of Ghana, in 26 May 2015.

National mortality targets

Maternal mortality ratio

70 per 100,000 live births by 2030

Stillbirth
rate

12 PER 1,000 total births by 2030

Neonatal mortality rate

12 per 1,000 live births by 2030

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

©UNICEF/WHO.Attribution needed

Progress to meet Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere coverage targets

Quality of care in Bangladesh

Bangladesh 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). Bangladesh’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:

Bangladesh National Health Care Quality Strategy has been approved by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in July 2022.
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) standards for improving quality of maternal and newborn care in health facilities were adapted and adopted.
Quality of Care has been incorporated into the national joint ENAP/EPMM action plan (now Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere).
The WHO Labour Care Guide was introduced. It is a tool that aims to support good-quality, evidence-based, respectful care during labour and childbirth, irrespective of the setting or level of health care.

News and events

Lessons to end postpartum hemorrhage

June 10, 2026

First webinar in a four-part series sharing lessons from the Accelerating Measurable Progress and Leveraging Investments for Postpartum Hemorrhage Impact (AMPLI-PPHI) project. Organized by Jhpiego.

Accelerating the reduction of maternal, newborn and child mortality – Progress to date and action for 2030

May 15, 2026

An event during the WHA79 to share high-level messages from the EWENE-Child Survival Action progress report.

Power in partnership: Unlocking sustainable financing for reproductive, maternal and newborn health commodities.

May 15, 2026

A reception during WHA79

Resources

See also: ‘Emerging Midwifery-led SRHR Acceleration through Sustained Policy, Education, Deployment, and Service-Delivery‘, the poster that the Bangladesh delegation presented at the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference 2026.