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Every Woman Every Newborn in Uganda

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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

219 per 100,000 live births by 2025

Stillbirth
rate

No data

Neonatal mortality rate

18 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

In 2024, the priorities in Uganda’s MNH Acceleration Plan include:

Scale up high-impact interventions for small and sick newborns
Improve the quality of emergency obstetric and newborn care and the care of the small and sick newborn.
Improve the quality of the data, particularly on stillbirth registration, civil registration and vital statistics and Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response.
Develop an investment case for newborn health.

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

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Quality of care in Uganda

Uganda is one of the 11 countries that set-up the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health. Ghana’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 of Care Framework & Strategic Plan 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.
A National Safe Motherhood Executive Committee set up – a team of experts that supports the development and review of clinical guidelines, monitors maternal and newborn health and follows-up on actions to accelerate the reduction of mortality and morbidity in mothers and children.
A first cycle of quality improvement mentorship for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health was conducted to build capacity of frontline teams to provide quality care, and grow the local capacity to cascade and sustain the intervention.
Quality of care activities for maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCAH) expanded as part of the National RMNCAH/Global Financing Facility investment case.
Advocacy is underway for a customized approach to implementing MPDSR in Ugandan refugee settings in order to best serve the immediate needs of people in crisis, and support health-care providers in providing care to the most vulnerable populations.

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 Uganda