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Country action
Kenya
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Ismaziah, a community nurse and midwife, assesses the child’s health and runs through the standard medical protocol checklist.
Every Woman Every Newborn in Kenya
Download the full profile with additional key demographics, progress against milestones, and more.
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
Launch of the Implementation guidance on transitioning to midwifery models of care
June 3, 2025
Wednesday 18 (online), with two webinars to accomodate different time zones.
World Patient Safety Day: Safe care for every newborn and every child
May 28, 2025
The theme for World Patient Safety Day 2025 is ‘Safe care for every newborn and every child.
Resources
State of the world’s nursing report 2025
May 22, 2025
The 2025 edition of the State of the world’s nursing provides the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the nursing workforce. The report features new indicators on
Joint Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere and Child Survival Action on the impact of ODA cuts
May 16, 2025
Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere and Child Survival Action joint messages on the impact of ODA cuts on maternal, newborn and child health. Prepared for
The Midwifery Accelerator: Expanding health care for women and newborns
April 8, 2025
The Midwifery Accelerator: Expanding Quality Care for Women and Newborns is a call to invest in midwifery care to save and transform the lives of women and their newborns around the world.