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Ismaziah, a community nurse and midwife, assesses the child’s health and runs through the standard medical protocol checklist.

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Every Woman Every Newborn in Mozambique

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

National mortality targets

Maternal mortality ratio

250 per 100,000 live births by 2023

Stillbirth
rate

16 PER 1,000 total births by 2023

Neonatal mortality rate

19 per 1,000 live births by 2023

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

In 2024, some of Mozambique’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 maternal and newborn health
Review of national maternal and newborn monitoring and evaluation registers and tools to ensure data quality and integration.
Advocacy for increasing domestic funds for maternal, newborn and child health priorities on the annual health strategic plan
Inclusion of maternal and newborn survival and health in the national emergency preparedness and response plan.
Inclusion of stillbirths in the Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response (MPDSR) database

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

©UNICEF/Quarmyne. Attribution needed

Quality of care in Mozambique

As part of its efforts to reduce maternal and newborn mortality and stillbirths, Mozambique is taking steps to improve the quality of maternal and newborn health. These include:

Development of the National quality strategy of maternal and newborn care.
Adaption of the World Health Organization standards of care for small & sick newborns and piloting in selected hospitals.
Development of the quality national standards for maternal and neonatal care and piloting in selected hospitals.

News and events

Maternity Matters:

May 16, 2025

Devex, in partnership with MSD for Mothers and EWENE, is hosting an event on the sidelines of the 78th World Health Assembly to explore how to accelerate progress in maternal and newborn survival.

Ministers to discuss impact of overseas development assistance (ODA) cuts on maternal, newborn and child health, and mitigation strategies

May 14, 2025

Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere, co-led by WHO, UNICEF and UNFPA, is organizing a ministerial roundtable dinner on May 17th, on the sidelines of the 78th World Health Assembly, to discuss the impact of significant ODA cuts on maternal and newborn health and child survival, and possible responses to this challenge.

Communicating the impact of extreme heat on maternal, newborn and child health

May 9, 2025

HIGH Horizons, a project that studies the effects of extreme heat on maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) is looking for examples of public health education messages used to raise awareness among pregnant and postpartum women, parents, families, and health workers about the risks of extreme heat exposure for MNCH.

Resources

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.

Trends in maternal mortality estimates 2000 to 2023: estimates by WHO, UNICEF, UNFPA, World Bank Group and UNDESA/Population Division

April 7, 2025

This report presents internationally comparable global-, regional- and country-level estimates and trends for maternal mortality between 2000 and 2023.

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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Midwives during WHO Head of Sub-Office Dr Kai von Harbou visit to Hope Field Hospital

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Every Woman Every Newborn in Mozambique