Launch of KMC Global Position Paper & Implementation Strategy
Every preterm or low birth weight (LBW) infant, whether in low-, middle- or high-income settings, should receive continuous and prolonged kangaroo mother care (KMC) initiated as soon as possible after birth and carried out for at least 8 hours per day. Achieving this will require changes to the physical layout of maternal and neonatal units […]
Launch of the Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality Coverage Targets and Milestones
The global virtual event launched the Ending Preventable Maternal Mortality (EPMM) coverage targets and milestones to 2025 which have been developed to support countries with setting interim targets and milestones to 2025 toward accelerating progress to meet the Sustainable Development Goal 3.1 to reduce maternal mortality in all countries. Session plan: Moderated by Femi Oke […]
Launch of the guide on strengthening implementation of home-based records for maternal, newborn and child health
The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the use of home-based records as a complement to facility-based records, to improve care seeking behaviours, men’s involvement and support in the household, maternal and child home care practices, infant and child feeding, and communication between health workers and women, parents and caregivers. Despite the wide use of home-based […]
Launch of the Nurturing Care Handbook and Practice Guide
The World Health Organization and UNICEF launched on March 28 2023 the Nurturing Care Handbook and Nurturing Care Practice Guide. These two publications are the latest in a series of resources to support implementation of the Nurturing Care Framework. This webinar included an overview of the Handbook and Practice Guide as well as reflections on […]
Providing respectful care for newborns and children
This webinar highlighted the need for improved providers’ competencies to ensure high quality, people-centered and responsive care is provided to newborns, children and their families. This webinar shared findings from a formative study conducted in two counties in Kenya on the manifestations, responses, and consequences of mistreatment of sick newborns and young infants and their […]
Launch of the Child Health and Well Being Dashboard
Access the Dashboard here A user-friendly dashboard to help countries to regularly monitor their progress and make evidence-based decisions about priority areas for action and resource allocation for children’s health – was launched by WHO, UNICEF and CAP2030. This webinar event showcased the dashboard, shared the conceptualization process and provided a vision and recommendations on […]
Improving the quality of nutrition in maternal, newborn and child health services
The Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health and the Child Health Task Force’s Quality of Care subgroup hosted a webinar to review the nutrition-specific components of the WHO standards for improving quality of facility-based MNCH care. The Network and associated WHO standards for improving quality of maternal and newborn […]
Launch of WHO’s Step-by-Step Manual on Inequality Monitoring in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health
Inequities in sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health (SRMNCAH) throughout the world mean that certain population subgroups have systematically worse health outcomes and poorer access to services and interventions. Addressing inequities in SRMNCAH is an important part of WHO’s mandate, and central to achieving universal health coverage, protecting human rights, combating discrimination and […]
Quality of care assessment tool for maternal and newborn care in hospitals: Learning experience from 25 countries & 133 hospitals across 5 regions
The Integrated Maternal, Newborn & Paediatric quality of care assessment and improvement tool in hospitals allows use of a standard-based audit approach towards engaging hospitals in firstly assessing all key domains relevant to quality of health care for maternal, newborn & child health, secondly, in developing action plans for quality improvement at hospital and national […]
Improving Health Worker Performance: Lessons from a global review of programs & Malawi’s experience and learning
Tuesday 15 June 2021 at 8am EDT, 2pm CEST and CAT Improving health worker performance in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) remains a major challenge. This webinar looked at the global level sharing the findings from a systematic review of the effectiveness of more than 100 strategies in LMICs to improve the performance of health […]