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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
08/07/2019
Strengthening district health systems
UNICEF helps find local solutions for global health challenges.
A mother lies next to her one-day-old baby, covered in blankets.
Programme
08/01/2019
Maternal and newborn health
Newborns and mothers are still dying in appalling numbers – mostly from preventable causes.
A six-month-old, just vaccinated, lies peacefully in a health clinic.
Programme
08/08/2019
Health
Every child has the right to survive and thrive.
A happy mother gives her baby a kiss on the cheek.
Programme
08/01/2019
Maternal, newborn and child survival
Improving the survival chances of newborns, children and mothers is an urgent global challenge.
On 1 January 2019 in Spain, newborn baby girl Sofia Karapetyan with her mother Lilit Grigoryan poses at the Vall d’Hebron Barcelona Hospital Campus in Barcelona.
Article
04/08/2021
Navigating pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic
How to best protect yourself and your baby
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
11/03/2020
What you need to know about stillbirths
Answers to common questions about this tragic loss of life
Stillbirth
Press release
10/07/2020
One stillbirth occurs every 16 seconds, according to first ever joint UN estimates
COVID-19-related health service disruptions could worsen the situation, potentially adding nearly 200,000 more stillbirths over a 12-month period
Statement
09/25/2020
Remarks by Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, at the launch of the Every Woman Every Child Progress report
Delivered on her behalf by Omar Abdi, Deputy Executive Director for Programmes
A young boy gets inoculated beside a tank
Press release
09/24/2020
Conflict, climate crisis and COVID-19 pose great threats to the health of women and children
Child and mother
Press release
09/08/2020
COVID-19 could reverse decades of progress toward eliminating preventable child deaths, agencies warn
With the number of under-five deaths at an all-time recorded low of 5.2 million in 2019, disruptions in child and maternal health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic are putting millions of additional lives at stake