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Nigeria
© UNICEF/UNI467214/Onafuwa. A portrait of Ngozi Nwabunwannem and her 3 months old baby, Goodluck Nwabunwannem at Otuocha Primary Healthcare Center, Anambra State on the 28th June 2023.
Every Woman Every Newborn in Nigeria
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National mortality targets
Maternal mortality ratio
27 per 100,000 live births by 2030
Stillbirth rate
27 per 1,000 total births by 2030
Neonatal mortality rate
15 per 1,000 live births by 2030
Progress to meet the national maternal, newborn mortality and stillbirth reduction targets
© UNICEF/UNI467259/Onafuwa. Aisha Tukur Isyaku, the Executive Secretary of the Kaduna State Health Supplies Management Agency takes a tour of the agency warehouse in Kaduna, Nigeria on the 5th June 2023.
Progress to meet Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere coverage targets
MNH Acceleration Plan highlights
In 2024, Nigeria’s MNH Acceleration Plan is focusing on three priorities:
- Advocate for and support the subnational levels to establish a Family health department, and reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, adolescent and elderly health plus nutrition (RMNCAEH+N) multi-stakeholder platforms in 18 States. Implementing the MNH Acceleration plan at the subnational level is critical in making impact in MNH activities. In the four states where these structures are in place, we see improved health indices.
- Strengthen and harmonize all digital technologies for better monitoring and evaluation for maternal, perinatal and neonatal health services and deaths: for the country to measure performance in MNH activities there is need for quality data from the services and lesson learnt from medical deaths audits.
- Support forecasting, procurement and utilization of MNH commodities and technologies at all levels: The successful implementation of MNH activities is based on adequate availability of MNH commodities.
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Rayanattu Adamamu a mid wife at kwando PhC attends to a client in Kwando PHC, Yalmatu Deba LGA, Gombe November, 2023
Quality of care in Nigeria
Nigeria 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). Nigeria’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 National Strategy on quality of care for maternal and newborn health was developed and deployed, and a technical working group established to coordinate the quality of care activities at national level. Thanks to a similar structure at state level, the number of quality of care learning sites grew from 112 in 12 states to 208 in 24 states by end of 2022.
- 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 are adopted.
- The 62nd National council on health resolved to scale up quality of care implementation and this has drastically added a large number of sites called scale up sites which kept increasing by the day.
- The National Quality of Care Learning Platform was deployed, providing information and updates on quality of care activities around the country. The platform provides information for peer-to-peer learning and knowledge exchange among parties who support quality of care for reproductive, maternal, newborn, adolescent and elderly health plus nutrition (RMNCAEH+N)
- A national MPDSR bill passed by Parliament provides a protective legal environment for MPDSR to safeguard its “no name, no blame” ethos and the confidentiality of information, without impeding the rights of deceased’s families to seek legal redress.
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