Progress and Determinants of Newborn Mortality in the Kyrgyz Republic
The factsheet on progress and determinants of newborn mortality in the Kyrgyz Republic
Highlights
In 2018, The Ministry of Health with the support of UNICEF commissioned a study to identify the Progress and Determinants of Newborn Mortality in Kyrgyz Republic. The study was conducted by a group of national experts from the Ministry of Health and researchers from the SickKids Centre for Global Child Health and the Mother and Child Care and Research Centre in Canada. Finance for this study was through a grant from the Government of Japan.
This culminated in a comprehensive assessment of the trends and determinants of newborn and maternal health in the country and to identify the main reasons for newborn mortality and how to prevent these deaths. The study considered global UN databases, articles and other analytical data. One of the important resources used in the study was the “Newborn Register”. This is a unique electronic database, developed by the Ministry of Health that contains information on newborns and their mothers.
The study covered the period from 1990 to 2018 and examined the progress in the 1990-2015 Millennium Development Goals era and 2015-2018 Sustainable Development Goals period. Several priority measures were identified to improve the survival rate of newborns and detailed recommendations are made for their implementation to reduce newborn mortality and towards achieving SDG No.3 in Kyrgyz Republic by 2030.
