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Newborn 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.
A mother and baby
Page
08/03/2018
UNICEF parenting
Bringing together some of the world’s leading baby experts to help parents give their children the best start in life
A baby is being weighted and vaccinated in the health center of Gonzagueville, a suburb of Abidjan, in the South of Côte d'Ivoire.
Article
01/14/2021
Routine vaccinations during COVID-19
How to safely get routine vaccinations for your child during the COVID-19 pandemic
New mother Animata cuddles her newborn baby at the PMI health center of Odienné, Northeast of Côte d'Ivoire.
Press release
12/31/2020
New Year’s Babies: Over 370,000 children will be born worldwide on New Year’s Day - UNICEF
With the calendar flipping to 2021, UNICEF dedicates its 75th year to reimagining a better world for children.
A newborn baby girl born on 31 Dec 2018 lies in nursery at 22 May Hospital in Dolaa Hamdan, Sana'a Governorate. More than four years of armed conflict in Yemen have served to worsen the situation of women and children at birth within a country that was already the poorest in the Middle East and one of the world’s most impoverished even before the war escalated early in 2015.
Press release
11/12/2020
Severe pneumonia leaves 4.2 million children desperate for oxygen each year
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