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Timor Leste
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Every Woman Every Newborn in Timor Leste
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A mum and her newborn baby at the Baucau Regional Hospital which will soon receive support from UNICEF to improve the quality of healthcare for mothers.
National mortality targets
Maternal mortality ratio
64 per 100,000 live births by 2030
Stillbirth rate
No data
Neonatal mortality rate
13 per 1,000 live births by 2030
Progress to meet the national maternal, newborn mortality and stillbirth reduction targets
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New mum Francisca, 21, with her first baby, a boy, who is yet to be named. At the UNICEF-supported Viqueque Community Health Centre, Viqueque Municipality.
Progress to meet Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere coverage targets
MNH Acceleration Plan highlights
- Develop an implementation plan for the national guidelines for antenatal and postnatal care.
- Improve essential newborn care in institutional delivery, for example by scaling up the ongoing training on essential newborn care.
- Strengthen the capacity of community healthy workers to deliver antenatal and postnatal care services.
- Conduct emergency obstetrics and neonatal care assessments, using the light assessment tools.
- Conduct national training on reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health programme management.
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Mum Auria with newborn baby Lucia.
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Mother Zulmira (24 years old) comforts her sick baby boy Apriliano (3 weeks) at the Baucau Regional Hospital in Timor-Leste.
Quality of care in Timor Leste
As part of its efforts to reduce maternal and newborn mortality and stillbirths, Timor Leste is taking steps to improve the quality of maternal and newborn health. (Link to the quality of care internal page). These include:
- Introduce and implement the WHO Labour Care Guide to monitor the delivery; the guide aims to support good-quality, evidence-based, respectful care during labour and childbirth.
- Improve the quality of antenatal care, with a delivery plan for each mother.
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