Thursday
April 10
2025

Analysis: The Low-Hanging Opportunities for Maternal and Newborn Health

Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures: WHO’s 2025 call to action

This year’s World Health Day theme —”Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures”— puts maternal and newborn health at the forefront of the global health agenda. As WHO calls for a “worldwide reinvigoration of efforts to ensure access to high quality care for women and babies,” we face a sobering reality: despite knowing what works, critical implementation gaps prevent life-saving interventions from reaching mothers and babies who need them most.

Photo courtesy of World_Bank_Sierra_Leone_0992.

Source: Evidence Action (link opens in a new window)

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