Links to partners within WHO

A large number of WHO departments, initiatives, special programmes and offices contribute to the work of the Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MCA). They include:

WHO departments, initiatives and special programmes

• Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights (ETH)
• Family and Community Health (FCH)
• Gender, Women and Health (GWH)
• Global Malaria Programme (GMP)
• Health Action in Crises (HAC)
• Health Policy, Development and Services (HDS)
• Health Systems and Services (HSS)
• HIV/AIDS (HIV)
• Human Resources for Health (HRH)
• Immunizations, Vaccines and Biologicals (IVB)
• Injuries and Violence Prevention (VIP)
• Maternal health in WHO
• Mental Health and Substance Abuse (MSD)
• Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health (NMH)
• Nursing and midwifery
• Nutrition for Health and Development (NHD)
• Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health (PMNCH)
• Reproductive Health and Research (RHR)
• Roll Back Malaria Partnership (RBM)
• Stop TB Partnership (STB)
• Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI)

WHO departments, initiatives and special programmes without web sites

Adult Lung Health Initiative (ALHI)
Ethics, Equity, Trade and Human Rights (ETH)
Health Security and Environment (HSE)
Information, Evidence and Research (IER)
HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases (HTM)
Measurement and Health Information Systems (MHI)

WHO Regional Offices

• Regional Office for Africa (AFRO)
• Regional Office for the Americas (AMRO)
• Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean (EMRO)
• Regional Office for Europe (EURO)
• Regional Office for South-East Asia (SEARO)
• Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO)

Other UN agencies

• UNAIDS - Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
• UNICEF - Missing Mothers
• UNICEF - Maternal and newborn health
• United Nations Population Fund - Safe motherhood
• The World Bank - Safe motherhood and maternal health

Associations and programmes for maternal and newborn health

• Helping Babies Breathe
• Averting Maternal Death and Disability (AMDD), Columbia University
• Family Care International
• IMMPACT - Initiative for maternal mortality programme assessment
• Maternity Worldwide
• Oxfam International
• PREMA - Malaria and anaemia in pregnancy
• Save the Children - Saving newborn lives
• The White Ribbon Alliance
• Enfants du Monde

Professional Associations

• International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)
• International Council of Nurses (ICN)
• International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO)
• International Pediatric Association (IPA)
• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG)

Technical Organizations

• Demographic and Health Surveys

Maternal and newborn health in the WHO regions

• African Region
• Region of the Americas
• South-East Asia Region
• European Region
• Eastern Mediterranean Region
• Western Pacific Region
• Country profiles

Child and adolescent health in the WHO regions