This brief summarizes current evidence and guidance for maintaining safe and effective care across the spectrum of maternal, newborn and infant care while protecting mother and child and health care p...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) call for all countries to reach an under-5 mortality rate (U5MR) of at least as low as 25 deaths per 1000 livebirths and a neonatal mortality rate (NMR) of at l...
The birth of a child is a moment to celebrate. However, childbirth can be a risky event and unexpected complications can arise. This brochure uses the latest available data to shed light on the health...
This series of cross-sectional studies explores the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on demand- and supply-side factors affecting maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH) service utilization in Kenya...
There were an estimated 2 million stillbirths in 2019. The importance of these deaths, both in terms of their overall number and their impact on women, families, health professionals and wider society...
The overall aim of this publication is to develop an initial conceptual framework on the specific factors that impact stillbirths in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). It is designed to go beyo...
While the world was gripped by the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, children continued to face the same crisis they have for decades: intolerably high mortality rates and vastly inequitable chance...
Every day in 2021, over 5,000 babies were stillborn at 28 weeks or more of gestation. That’s a staggering 1.9 million babies stillborn in just one year. Two in five of these babies died during labour ...
Co-authored by International Stillbirth Alliance (ISA), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), and U...