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Uganda
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Every Woman Every Newborn in Uganda
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National mortality targets
Maternal mortality ratio
219 per 100,000 live births by 2025
Stillbirth rate
No data
Neonatal mortality rate
18 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
In 2024, the priorities in Uganda’s MNH Acceleration Plan include:
- Scale up high-impact interventions for small and sick newborns
- Improve the quality of emergency obstetric and newborn care and the care of the small and sick newborn.
- Improve the quality of the data, particularly on stillbirth registration, civil registration and vital statistics and Maternal and Perinatal Death Surveillance and Response. (Link to internal MPDSR page)
- Develop an investment case for newborn health.
©UNICEF/Quarmyne. Redait Tsegay, beneficiary, going to a health center, Neqsege
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Quality of care in Uganda
Uganda 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). Ghana’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:
- A National Quality of Care Framework & Strategic Plan is implemented.
- 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.
- A National Safe Motherhood Executive Committee set up – a team of experts that supports the development and review of clinical guidelines, monitors maternal and newborn health and follows-up on actions to accelerate the reduction of mortality and morbidity in mothers and children.
- A first cycle of quality improvement mentorship for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health was conducted to build capacity of frontline teams to provide quality care, and grow the local capacity to cascade and sustain the intervention.
- Quality of care activities for maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCAH) expanded as part of the National RMNCAH/Global Financing Facility investment case.
- Advocacy is underway for a customized approach to implementing MPDSR in Ugandan refugee settings in order to best serve the immediate needs of people in crisis, and support health-care providers in providing care to the most vulnerable populations.
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