Aug 7, 2025 · To ensure every child survives and thrives to reach their full potential, we must focus on improving care around the time of birth and the first week of life. The high rates of …

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Essential newborn care High-quality universal newborn health care is the right of every newborn everywhere. Babies have the right to be protected from injury and infection, to breathe …

Apr 8, 2024 · A newborn infant, or neonate, refers to a baby in the first 28 days of life, a period marked by the highest risk of morbidity and mortality. Enhancing neonatal survival and health …

Mar 14, 2024 · WHO fact sheet on newborn mortality, including key facts, causes, priority strategies, newborn care and WHO response.

The World Health Organization in collaboration with partners around the world has developed a second edition of the Essential Newborn Care Course.

Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing We lead WHO’s work on the life course so that every pregnant woman, mother, newborn, child, adolescent, and older person …

Sep 1, 2025 · This year, the theme is “Safe care for every newborn and every child”, with the slogan “Patient safety from the start!”, recognizing the vulnerability of this age group to risks …

Apr 2, 2024 · Universal newborn screening implementation guidanceIn 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) released updated postnatal care guidelines “Recommendations on …

Jun 24, 2014 · Every Newborn progress report One year after the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP) was endorsed at the 67th World Health Assembly, 15 of 18 low-resource countries …