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Newborn health

A baby in Rwanda rests in the hospital neonatal ward.
Programme
27 May 2019
Child health and HIV/AIDS
UNICEF strives to keep every child in Rwanda alive, healthy, and free from HIV and AIDS.
Group photo
Article
25 July 2022
CEO Forum members visit Girubuzima Health Post in Gicumbi
UNICEF is working with partners to galvanize leading private businesses to invest in child-friendly business practices at their respective areas of work.
Dr. Ariane Nina Ndayikeje, Head of Pediatrics and Neonatology Department at Kacyiru Hospital, performs a consultation
Article
23 March 2022
Improving survival and wellbeing of newborns in Rwanda
UNICEF is working with partners to reduce newborn mortality by improving the quality of maternal and newborn care in Rwanda
A nurse tends to prematurely-born baby at Gahini Hospital
Press release
25 September 2021
Perinatal Care Program Phase One completed successfully in Rwanda
With UNICEF support, in the past four years, medical staff in selected Rwandan hospitals have significantly improved perinatal care quality and advanced neonatal intensive care capacity
Mother practices kangaroo care with her newborn baby
Article
21 September 2021
Kangaroo Mother Care is helping premature babies survive
Reducing newborn mortality rates, one hospital at a time in Rwanda
Mother holds her newborn twins
Article
01 September 2021
Saving the lives of newborns through Perinatal Care
UNICEF is training Rwandan health care providers to better care for small and sick newborns.
World Breastfeeding week 2021
Statement
02 August 2021
Joint statement by UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore and WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on the occasion of World Breastfeeding Week
NEW YORK/GENEVA
Honourable Minister of Health Dr. Daniel Ngamije thanks UNICEF Representative in Rwanda Julianna Lindsey for the handover of US$ 1 million in essential medical supplies and equipment.
Press release
27 October 2020
UNICEF procures $1 million in essential medical equipment for newborn health and the fight against COVID-19 in Rwanda
Jacqueline Mukawiringiye, Head Nurse in the neonatology ward at Rwanda's Gahini Hospital, stands in her scrubs wit ha clipboard next to the bed of a prematurely born baby, now recovering and in good health.
Article
01 May 2020
Reducing newborn deaths in Rwanda, one hospital at a time
With support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals, UNICEF is helping train medical staff in hospitals so they can save the lives of premature babies and mothers
Chantal Ingabire holds her newborn daughter close to her chest using the "Kangaroo Care" technique.
Article
20 June 2019
Born too early: Rwanda's smallest babies
Better care for these newborns could save a life. UNICEF brings paediatric mentors to Rwandan hospitals, so more babies survive past first birthday.