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Maternal health

A mother lies on her side, head in hand, with her baby seated in front of her outside a health centre in Uganda.
Programme
07 August 2019
Strengthening district health systems
UNICEF helps find local solutions for global health challenges.
A mother in India feeds her newborn baby.
Programme
01 August 2019
Maternal and newborn health
Newborns and mothers are still dying in appalling numbers – mostly from preventable causes.
Razoeliarinala Tamby, 26, buys food at a market in Ambanitsena, Madagascar, 2019.
Programme
29 January 2021
Maternal nutrition
Preventing malnutrition in pregnant and breastfeeding women.
A happy mother gives her baby a kiss on the cheek.
Programme
01 August 2019
Maternal, newborn and child survival
Improving the survival chances of newborns, children and mothers is an urgent global challenge.
A new mother rests after giving birth in Baria, Gujarat, India.
Article
01 September 2023
Navigating pregnancy and COVID-19
How to protect yourself and your baby
A doctor examines a newborn.
Press release
09 May 2023
150 million babies born preterm in the last decade
A mother holds her baby.
Press release
08 May 2023
Global progress in tackling maternal and newborn deaths stalls since 2015: UN
COVID-19, rising poverty, and worsening humanitarian crises intensify pressure on already overstretched maternity and newborn health services
A mother lays in a hospital bed holding her newborn baby.
Press release
22 February 2023
A woman dies every two minutes due to pregnancy or childbirth: UN agencies
New data show major setbacks for maternal health in many parts of the world, highlighting stark disparities in healthcare access
A woman in Sierra Leone sleeps after giving birth to a stillborn baby at home after 10 hours of labour. She was brought to the hospital for emergency removal of a retained placenta. Of eight pregnancies, she has four surviving children.
Article
10 January 2023
What you need to know about stillbirths
Answers to common questions about this tragic loss of life
A mother uses an orange cloth to wrap her baby to her chest.
Press release
09 January 2023
A child or youth died once every 4.4 seconds in 2021 – UN report
Another 1.9 million babies were tragically stillborn during the same period, according to a separate UN report.