News

• Better supply systems key to reach all children with life-saving vaccines
  18 April 2013
• WHO/UNICEF: New plan to address pneumonia and diarrhoea could save 2 million children a year
  12 April 2013
• Ending preventable deaths from pneumonia and diarrhoea by 2025
  10 April 2013
• International Women’s Day - 8 March
  8 March 2013
• Child marriages: 39,000 every day
  7 March 2013
• High-level commitment to save the lives of mothers and children in the EMRO Region
  1 February 2013
• Addressing the challenge of women’s health in Africa
  17 December 2012
• Consultation to discuss the next steps towards the elimination of preventable pneumonia and diarrhoea deaths.
  6 December 2012
• Launch of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist Collaboration
  21 November 2012
• World Prematurity Day highlights effective, low-cost care
  17 November 2012
• WHO: Routine vaccination reaching four in five children but 22 million still miss out
  1 November 2012
• Women's and children's health at the UN General Assembly
  10 October 2012
• H4+: supporting the Global Strategy on Women's and Children's Health
  21 September 2012
• Message from Dr Flavia Bustreo on new child survival data
  14 September 2012
• Accelerating progress on child survival since 2000, UN says
  13 September 2012
• APEC ministers discuss investing in human capital, promoting healthy lifestyles, and maternal and child health
  6 September 2012
• World Breastfeeding Week 1–7 August 2012
  30 July 2012
• Children with disabilities more likely to experience violence
  12 July 2012
• WHO joins call for renewed focus on family planning
  11 July 2012
• New data highlight increases in hypertension, diabetes incidence
  16 May 2012
• 15 Million babies born too soon
  2 May 2012
• New global report: 15 million babies born too soon, over 1 million die each year
  1 May 2012
• The Lancet publishes second Series on Adolescent Health
  25 April 2012
• Three-year study identifies key interventions to reduce maternal, newborn and child deaths
  15 December 2011
• Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children
  12 November 2011
• 12 000 fewer children perish daily in 2010 than in 1990 – UNICEF, WHO
  15 September 2011
• Newborn deaths decrease but account for higher share of global child deaths
  30 August 2011
• International Youth Day 12 August 2011
  12 August 2011
• New online nutrition initiative can help protect lives and health of millions of children
  10 August 2011
• World Breastfeeding Week
  3 August 2011
• World Breastfeeding Week 1-7 August 2011
  29 July 2011
• WHO and UN Committee on the Rights of the Child will collaborate more closely on maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health
  20 July 2011
• More skilled midwives needed to save women's and newborns' lives
  20 June 2011
• Adolescents particularly affected by new HIV infections - new UN report calls for action to improve protection of young people
  1 June 2011
• International Day of the Midwife: Statement by WHO Assistant Director-General for Family and Community Health
  5 May 2011
• 2.6 million babies stillborn in 2009
  14 April 2011
• 2.6 million stillbirths in 2009: New global and country estimates published in Lancet Series and World Health Statistics
  14 April 2011
• Top 30 medicines to save mothers and children
  21 March 2011
• More developing countries show universal access to HIV/AIDS services is possible
  28 September 2010
• Maternal deaths worldwide drop by third
  15 September 2010
• International Year of Youth
  12 August 2010
• Breastfeeding key to saving children’s lives
  30 July 2010
• WHO announces new approaches to HIV prevention and treatment among children
  20 July 2010
• New WHO Department of Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health to be created
  10 July 2010
• Sixty-third World Health Assembly adopts resolutions on MDGs, infant feeding, pneumonia, and birth defects
  17 May 2010
• Better care for newborns crucial for Millennium Development Goal on child deaths
  10 May 2010
• Child Health Cost Estimation Tool
  2 May 2010
• New children's medicine guide released by UNICEF and WHO
  29 April 2010