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Kenya
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Ismaziah, a community nurse and midwife, assesses the child’s health and runs through the standard medical protocol checklist.
Every Woman Every Newborn in Kenya
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National mortality targets
Maternal mortality ratio
100 per 100,000 live births by 2025
Stillbirth rate
7 PER 1,000 total births by 2023
Neonatal mortality rate
12 per 1,000 live births by 2023
Progress to meet the national maternal, newborn mortality and stillbirth reduction targets
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Progress to meet Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere coverage targets
MNH Acceleration Plan highlights
- Build or strengthen the capacity of health facilities to implement high-impact maternal and newborn health interventions.
- Map and review the available data at facility and community levels to prioritize interventions.
- Strengthen the collection of routine service delivery data and ensure it is utilized for continuous quality improvement and decision-making.
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Quality of care in Kenya
Kenya is one of the 11 countries that set up the Network for Improving Quality of Care for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (Quality of Care Network). (link to quality of care network internal page). Kenya’s successes in improving quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health are essential to help reduce maternal and newborn mortality and stillbirths. These include:
- The adoption of the World Health Organization’s standards to improve quality of maternal and newborn care, small and sick newborns care, and children and young adolescents care in health facilities.
- A focus on addressing post-partum haemorrhage, with the creation of a plan to improve the quality of post-partum haemorrhage prevention, identification, and management.
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