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Maternal health

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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 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.
In Sulaymaniyah, Iraq, a health worker inspects a baby in an incubator at the kangaroo mother care facility.
Photo essay
15 November 2022
Kangaroo mother care ensures premature babies thrive in Iraq
How infants are receiving the intensive care they need to go home healthy
A new mother rests after giving birth in Baria, Gujarat, India.
Article
21 October 2022
Navigating pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic
How to protect yourself and your baby
Document
04 July 2022
UNICEF Health Programme Results 2021: Key highlights

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Maternal, Newborn and Adolescent Health (PDF, 2 MB)
Child Health (PDF, 604 KB)
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Primary Health Care (PDF, 7 MB)
Associate Director, Maternal and Newborn Child Health
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Biography
27 January 2022
Lu Wei Pearson
Associate Director, Maternal and Newborn Child Health
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