©UNICEF/UN0795297/UNICEF Sri L. Dr. Shanthini Ganeshan, right, speaks to to a a mother of an inpatient baby at Kalubowila general hospital on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023.
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© UNICEF/UNI528037/UNICEF Sri L.On January 6, 2023, the measles vaccination campaign in Ja Ela, Sri Lanka, commenced, backed by collaborative efforts from the Ministry of Health’s Epidemiology Department, UNICEF, and the Japanese government.
©UNICEF/UNI6474/Pietrasik Nurses show a new mother the correct way to breastfeed her baby, in the maternity ward in Pottuvil Government Hospital in the eastern Ampara District.
© UNICEF/UNI464426/UNICEF Sri L The Kuruvita MOH is vital to meeting the specific requirements of new mothers, expecting mothers, and their babies since it is tasked with organising and supervising certain programmes at the MOH office.
© UNICEF/UN0795310/UNICEF Sri L Nuwani, a 27 year old mother of one month old infant yet to be named, sits by her daughters hospital bed at Kalubowila general hospital on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023
Sri Lanka’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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
This report presents internationally comparable global-, regional- and country-level estimates and trends for maternal mortality between 2000 and 2023.
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.
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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