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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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In April 2013 in Zimbabwe, a woman and her infant await care at the Madamombe rural health centre in Chivi District, Masvingo Province.
In 2026, Zimbabwe’s MNH Acceleration Plan prioritizes the following:
Implement quality improvement processes and indicators across antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal care, essential newborn care and small and sick newborn care. Implement emergency obstetric and newborn care signal functions at all levels of the health system. Provide health workers with competency-based support.
Strengthen data systems with data from the local level and private sector reporting.
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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.
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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.
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:
First webinar in a four-part series sharing lessons from the Accelerating Measurable Progress and Leveraging Investments for Postpartum Hemorrhage Impact (AMPLI-PPHI) project. Organized by Jhpiego.
An event during the WHA79 to share high-level messages from the EWENE-Child Survival Action progress report.
A reception during WHA79
See also: ‘eMPDNS: From Paper to Real-Time Action: Leveraging Digital Technology to Prevent Avoidable Maternal and Perinatal Deaths in Zimbabwe‘, the poster that the Zimbabwe delegation presented at the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference 2026.
These messages were developed by the United Advocacy Working Group for Maternal, Newborn and Child health.
Posters presented by 40 country delegations at the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference 2026.
International Maternal Newborn HealthConference (IMNHC) 2026 These key messages and advocacy asks are intended to equip partners with evidence-based messaging andresources in the context of