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Photo © 2020 UNICEF/ Karel Prinsloo
Twenty year old pregnant Zanle Chisa get a check up at the Tanganda Rural Health Centre near Mutare, Zimbabwe, Feb, 5, 2020 .

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Every Woman Every Newborn in Zimbabwe

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

Photo © 2013 UNICEF/ Jordi Matas
In April 2013 in Zimbabwe, a woman and her infant await care at the Madamombe rural health centre in Chivi District, Masvingo Province.

National mortality targets

Maternal mortality ratio

240 per 100,000 live births by 2025

Stillbirth
rate

No data

Neonatal mortality rate

20 per 1,000 live births by 2025

Progress to meet the national maternal, newborn mortality and stillbirth reduction targets

Photo © 2013 UNICEF/ Jordi Matas
In April 2013 in Zimbabwe, a young woman, holding her infant, recovers in a maternity ward the day after giving birth, in Chivi District, Masvingo Province.

Progress to meet Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere coverage targets

MNH Acceleration Plan highlights

Improve funding for maternal and newborn health by disaggregating maternal health and newborn expenditure data in the national health expenditures, mobilizing additional domestic resources and engaging the private sector.
Increase the availability of high impact medical equipment and commodities through advocacy for increased domestic and donor investment into high impact technologies.
Improve health worker availability and motivation: Use the results of the Health Labour Market analysis as advocacy to stem midwives attrition.

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Photo © 2011 UNICEF/ Giacomo Pirozzi
2011, A health worker checks blood pressure of a pregnant woman at Neshuro District Hospital in Mwenezi, some 150km from the town of Masvingo(south of Zimbabwe). UNICEF supports maternal and child health care including PMTCT at the hospital.

Quality of care in Zimbabwe

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

National Health Sector Quality Framework is operationalized, guided by local evidence on priority drivers of quality of care failures.
Community engagement and social accountability on Maternal and perinatal death surveillance and response (MPDSR) is improved, building on the implementation of the National Community Health Strategy.

News and events

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Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere Results Framework, 2022-2025

December 11, 2024

The Results Framework for EWENE, detailing deliverables for each of the ten milestones: Policy and plans, Investment, Response and Resilience, Quality of care, Health workforce,

Six years to the SDG deadline: Six actions to reduce unacceptably high maternal, newborn and child deaths and stillbirths

May 19, 2024

A two-pager published by ENAP EPMM and Child Survival Action ahead of the World Health Assembly 2024.

Guidance on developing national learning health-care systems to sustain and scale up delivery of quality maternal, newborn and child health care

May 3, 2022

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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 Zimbabwe