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Photo © 2023 WHO / Gary Chong Studios – Faris Syazwan:
Ismaziah, a community nurse and midwife, assesses the child’s health and runs through the standard medical protocol checklist.

Every Woman Every Newborn in Malawi

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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

140 per 100,000 live births
by 2030

Stillbirth
rate

No data

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

MNH Acceleration Plan highlights

I In 2024, some of Malawi’s MNH Acceleration Plan priorities include:

  • Quality of care standards and respectful maternal care implemented in health facilities.
  • Improve communication and transport for referral
  • Conduct outreach clinics for hard-to-reach areas
  • Develop a community scorecard on MNH

©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.  

Quality of care in Malawi

Malawi 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). Malawi’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 Management Policy 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.
  • Malawi added an additional standard for community engagement and social accountability activities and outcomes. Malawi established social accountability structures at national level to ensure the provision of quality MNCH services across all health facilities.
  • Training for quality improvement in MNCH is expanded nationally to all 29 districts.
  • A national MNCH online learning platform on quality of care was set up  for frontline health workers with over 1200 health enrolled, as part of their continuous professional development.
  • A plan to strengthen the health workforce, especially neonatal nurses is underway.

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Resources

Levels and trends in child mortality, 2024

March 26, 2025

This report by the United Nations Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation provides the latest data and trends on child mortality. It calls on governement, donors and partners for greater potical will to end preventable child mortality.

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