Thematic Guide: Maternal, Newborn and Child Health

• New emphasis on maternal, newborn and child health
  "Focussing on maternal, newborn and child health makes sense from technical, political and human rights perspectives. However, without clarity on future directions, focus and energy could dissipate." Giovanni Putoto, Doctors with Africa Cuamm, in: MMI Network News, January 2011
  www.medicusmundi.org

For further resources of the Medicus Mundi International Network, please refer to our thematic pages on child health and safe pregnancy / maternal health.

• Millennium Development Goal 4
  Reduce by two-thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortality rate
  www.who.int/topics/millennium_development_goals
• Millennium Development Goal 5
  A. Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal mortality ratio. B. Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health
  www.who.int/topics/millennium_development_goals

• Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH)
  "PMNCH mission is to support the global health community to work successfully towards achieving MDGs 4 and 5*. This is expected to be done by enhancing partners’ interactions and using their comparative advantages to achieve the following objectives: Build consensus on, and promote evidence-based high-impact interventions and means to deliver them through harmonization; contribute to raising US$ 30 billion (for 2009-2015) to improve maternal, newborn and child health through advocacy; and track partners' commitments and measurement of progress for accountability."
  www.who.int/entity/pmnch
  
  WHO departments:

• Making Pregnancy Safer
  www.who.int/making_pregnancy_safer
• Child and Adolescent and Development
  www.who.int/child_adolescent_health
  

• Eliminating health inequities: Every woman and every child counts
  Report by PMNCH and IFRC, November 2011
  www.who.int/pmnch
  
• Sub-Saharan Africa’s mothers, newborns, and children: Where and why do they die?
  Mary V. Kinney et al. in: PLoS Medicine, June 2010
  http://bit.ly/dHxQtW
• Women and children first: an appropriate first step towards universal coverage
  Rob Yates in: WHO Bulletin, June 2010
  www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/6/09-074401

• Keeping Promises, Measuring Results
  Report of the Commission Commission on Information and Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health (2011)
  www.everywomaneverychild.org
• Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health
  launched during the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit in Sept 2010
  www.who.int/pmnch/activities/jointactionplan
• Taking stock of maternal, newborn and child survival
  The "Countdown to 2015 Decade Report" tracks coverage levels for health interventions proven to reduce maternal, newborn and child mortality. The Countdown Initiative is a supra-institutional collaborative effort of concerned individuals and partner organizations (PMNCH 2010)
  www.countdown2015mnch.org
• Make every mother and child count
  The World Health Report, WHO 2005
  www.who.int/whr/2005
  

• Essential knowledge for maternal, newborn and child health
  "This is a gateway to knowledge resources from the more than 400 partner organizations of the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health"
  http://portal.pmnch.org/
  
• Every Woman Every Child
  United Nations website promoting the Global Strategy for Women's and Children's Health
  www.everywomaneverychild.org
• Accountability for Women’s and Children’s Health:
  results, resources, oversight
  www.who.int/woman_child_accountability
  

• Xth World Congress on Maternal and Neonatal Health
  Rome, 18-20 December 2011
  www.who.int/pmnch/media/membernews
• MMI Network meeting: Mother and child health - before and past 2015
  Brescia, Italy, 28 October 2011
  www.bit.ly/mmi-brescia