NEW YORK/GENEVA/KATHMANDU, 9 October 2020, – Almost 2 million babies are stillborn every year – or 1 every 16 seconds – according to the first ever joint stillbirth estimates released by UNICEF, the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Bank Group and the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs. The vast majority of stillbirths, 84 per cent…, The report is available here:, http://uni.cf/stillbirthreport This image shows a woman unpacking baby clothes and blankets in her home in Lusaka. She has just returned following the stillbirth of her baby. She believes her baby was stillborn due to complications related to her diabetes and HIV-positive status. UNICEF/UNI59991/Nesbitt A woman unpacks baby clothes and blankets in…

“It was like having to enter a flooded river with no idea of whether you would make it to the other side. We just had to jump in and do our best to swim.” This is how Hema Thapa, nurse administrator at the Narayani Hospital in Birgunj in Parsa District in southern Nepal, describes her experience of being on the frontlines of the COVID-19 crisis at…

Mugu, Nepal:, As the morning sun hits his porch in the village of Bham Bada in Mugu District, Jhim Bahadur Bhandari is picking pieces of husk out of a batch of millet grains. Daughters Sarina and Man Devi are darting in and out of the house, getting ready for their classes. Their mother, Dharmi, is in the kitchen. It’s a pleasant scene, though something of an…

UNICEF and KOICA has partnered to improve maternal health and child health in Mugu.  Mountains and hills Gamghadi, Mugu As part of the programme, the capacity of health workers is being enhanced for a more effective healthcare governance system.  Training On 6 May, health workers from 26 health facilities across the district received training on…

“It felt like the world was finished.”, Gorkha, Nepal –, In 2015, Anarda Gurung was an Assistant Health Worker at the health post in Laprak village in Gorkha District in north-central Nepal. When a massive earthquake struck Nepal on 25 April, Laprak – owing to its proximity to the epicenter in Barpak in the same district – was practically levelled. Anarda, who’d been at home when the quake hit,…