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An Analytical Report on National Survey of Female Community Health Volunteers of Nepal

Government of Nepal USAID, MOH (Nepal) (2007) C1

The FCHV program focuses on family planning, maternal/neonatal and child health. Vitamin A distribution program. The activity of FCHV is contributing to Nepal’s goal of reducing the total fertility rate and under five mortality and maternal mortality rates.

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Implementation of Option B+ for prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV: The Malawi Experience

World Health Organization; Regional Office for Africa (2014) C_WHO

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Standards for improving the quality of care for children and young adolescents in health facilities

World Health Organization WHO (2018) C_WHO

These standards for the quality of paediatric care in health facilities form part of normative guidance for improving the quality of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health care. In view of the importance of the continuum of both the life-course and service delivery (1), these standards bu... more

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Review/Assessment of Implementation of Child Death Surveillance and Response (CDSR) in Myanmar

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Health and Sports, Department of Public Health, Child Health Division (2018) C1

March - June 2018
Myanmar introduced Child Death Surveillance and Response (CDSR) in 2015 as an initiative to reduce child (under-5) mortality, an initiative that will contribute to the country’s efforts to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Technical Guidelines for CDSR were devel... more

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National Strategic Plan for Newborn and Child Health Development (2015-2018)

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Ministry of Health, Department of Health, Child Health Division World Health Organization (WHO), Country Office for Myanmar (2015) C_WHO

No publication year indicated
The specific objectives of the plan are to:
- Scale up evidence-based, cost effective interventions through effective strategies within a HSS approach and provide equitable coverage with quality.
- Reduce neonatal mortality by improved home-based newborn ... more

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Levels and Trends in Child Mortality 2021

United Nations Inter-Agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) (2021) C1

While the world was gripped by the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, children continued to face the same crisis they have for decades: intolerably high mortality rates and vastly inequitable chances at life. In total, more than 5.0 million children under age 5, including 2.4 million newborns, alo... more

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Measuring the Success of Family Planning Initiatives in Rwanda: A Multivariate Decomposition Analysis.

uhoza, Dieudonné Ndaruhuye, Pierre Claver Rutayisire, and Aline Umubyeyi. Calverton, Maryland, USA: ICF International (2013) C2

DHS Working Papers No. 94 - This study described the family planning initiatives in Rwanda and analyzed the 2005 and 2010 RDHS data to identify factors that contribute to the increase in contraceptive use. The Blinder-Oaxaca technique was used to decompose the contributions of women’s characterist... more

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Community dialogues for healthy children: encouraging communities to talk

Malaria Consortium (2014)

Integrated community case management (ICCM) – an approach where community-based health workers are trained to identify, treat and refer children under-five with pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria – is increasingly being used across sub-Saharan Africa to supplement the gaps in basic healthcare prov... more

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Neonatal health in Nepal: analysis of absolute and relative inequalities and impact of current efforts to reduce neonatal mortality

Paudel, D., Shrestha, I.B., Siebeck, M. & Rehfuess, E.A. (2013) CC

Nepal has made substantial progress in reducing under-five mortality and is on track to achieve Millennium Development Goal 4, but advances in neonatal health are less encouraging. The objectives of this study were to assess relative and absolute inequalities in neonatal mortality over time, and to ... more

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The 2014 Myanmar Population and Housing Census: Thematic Report on Mortality

The Republic of the Union of Myanmar (2016) C1

Census Report Volume 4-B
In the 2014 Census, early-age mortality was measured from the responses to two simple retrospective questions on childbearing addressed to ever-married women aged 15 and over. These questions referred to how many live children they had ever given birth to, and how many ... more

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Early estimates of the indirect effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on maternal and child mortality in low-income and middle-income countries: a modelling study

Roberton, T.; et al. (2020) CC

The Lancet Global Health Published:May 12, 2020DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30229-1

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Effect of the COVID-19 pandemic response on intrapartum care, stillbirth, and neonatal mortality outcomes in Nepal: a prospective observational study

Ashish KC, R. Gurung, M.V Kinney, et al. (2020) CC

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Levels & Trends in Child Mortality, Report 2020

World Health Organisation, unicef, World Bank Group (2020) C_WHO

At the time of writing, the novel coronavirus pandemic had reached every region of the world, with millions of infections globally and untold disruptions to nearly every aspect of daily life.

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Implementing the Global Compact on Refugees for children: Examples of child-focused work

Save the Children, Terre des Hommes (2020) CC

Children in refugee situations face many potential dangers, such as violence, abuse, exploitation, discrimination, separation from their families, trafficking and military recruitment. The impact of these experiences can be devastating and long-lasting. Children have different needs from adults and ... more

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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on child health and the provision of Care in Paediatric Emergency Departments

Conlon C., T. McDonnell, M. Barrett, et al. BMC (2021) CC

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent public health guidance to reduce the spread of the diseasehave wide-reaching implications for children’s health and wellbeing. Furthermore, paediatric emergency departments(EDs) have rapidly adapted provision of care in response to the pandemic. This qualitativ... more

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Impact of COVID‑19 pandemic on maternal and child health services in Uttar Pradesh, India

Singh, A. K.; P. K. Jain; N. P. Singh; et al. (2021) CC

In the wake of the Covid‑19 Pandemic, parts of the public health system at increased risk of reduced efficiency include healthcare services for women and children. This in turn could reverse all the progress achieved over the years in reducing maternal and child mortality. In th... more

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National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), India, 2019-21: National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS) and ICF Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (2021) CC

March 2021 This report presents the key findings of the NFHS-5 survey in the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, followed by detailed tables and an appendix on sampling errors. The 2019-21 National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5), the fifth in the NFHS series, provides information on populatio... more

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The impact of the war in Ukraine and subsequent economic downturn on child poverty in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Richardson, D., Otchere, F., Musatti, A. UNICEF (2022) C_UNICEF

Data from 22 countries across the region featured in the study shows children are bearing the heaviest burden of the economic crisis caused by the war in Ukraine. While children make up 25 per cent of the population, they account for nearly 40 per cent of the additional 10.4 million people experienc... more

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Nigeria: reducing the indirect causes of maternal morbidity and mortality: the RICOM3 Project

World Health Organisation (WHO) (2023) C_WHO

Nigeria reported its first case of COVID-19 at the end of February 2020 and subsequently experienced four waves, with peaks in June 2020 and January, August and December 2021. The COVID-19 pandemic severely impacted the economy of Nigeria and caused disruption of health services nationwide. During... more

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Donor Funding for Newborn Survival: An Analysis of Donor-Reported Data, 2002–2010

Pitt1, C.; J. E. Lawn; M. Ranganathan et al. PLoS Med (2012) CC

Background:Neonatal mortality accounts for 43% of global under-five deaths and is decreasing more slowly than maternal or child mortality. Donor funding has increased for maternal, newborn, and child health (MNCH), but no analysis to date has disaggregated aid for newborns. We evaluated if and how a... more