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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.

Strengthening district health systems

UNICEF helps find local solutions for global health challenges.

A mother in India feeds her newborn baby.

Maternal and newborn health

Newborns and mothers are still dying in appalling numbers – mostly from preventable causes.

A happy mother gives her baby a kiss on the cheek.

Maternal, newborn and child survival

Improving the survival chances of newborns, children and mothers is an urgent global challenge.

A mother and baby

UNICEF parenting

Bringing together some of the world’s leading baby experts to help parents give their children the best start in life

A new mother rests after giving birth in Baria, Gujarat, India.

01 September 2023

Navigating pregnancy and COVID-19

How to protect yourself and your baby

A doctor examines a newborn.

150 million babies born preterm in the last decade

A mother holds her baby.

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

Case studies on newborn health in humanitarian settings

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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.

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.

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.