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Zero Preventable Maternal and Newborn Deaths
Every death counts. Every death is acted upon.
No mother or newborn dies from a cause preventable through timely, quality, evidence-based care. This requires effective care across the continuum, from adolescent and reproductive health through pregnancy, childbirth, emergency care and the postnatal period.
The political promise
Every preventable maternal and newborn death counts, is acted upon and is no longer accepted as inevitable.
Why this one
The reasoning
No mother or newborn dies from a cause preventable through timely, quality, evidence-based care. This requires effective care across the continuum, from adolescent and reproductive health through pregnancy, childbirth, emergency care and the postnatal period.
Headline measure: Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) and Neonatal Mortality Rate (NMR)
The pathway to zero
What it requires
- 01Care across the full continuum
- 02Emergency obstetric and newborn care
- 03Functioning referral and continuity of care
- 04MPDSR review translated into corrective action
- 05Postnatal care