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Newborn Health

Data Uptake Series: Ethiopia 2023

June 6, 2023

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Policy Brief : Assurer des soins prénatals précoces en Côte d’Ivoire, c’est sauver des vies

March 27, 2023

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How Zambia reduced inequalities in under-five mortality rates over the last two decades: a mixed-methods study

March 27, 2023

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Opportunities in crisis for optimising child health and development

March 27, 2023

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RMNCAH Data Analysis Workshop For Sub-Saharan Africa — Senegal Report

February 15, 2023

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National and subnational coverage and other service statistics for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health from health facility data and surveys in Rwanda

February 14, 2023

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National and subnational coverage and other service statistics for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health using health facility data and surveys in Ethiopia

February 14, 2023

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National and subnational coverage and other service statistics for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health from health facility data and surveys in Zimbabwe

February 13, 2023

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National and subnational coverage and other service statistics for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health from survey and health facility data in Mali

February 13, 2023

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National and subnational coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health from health facility data and surveys, 2017-2021 for Ghana

February 13, 2023

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National And Subnational Coverage And Other Service Statistics For Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn And Child Health From Health Facility Data And Surveys, 2017-2021 in Nigeria

February 11, 2023

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National and subnational coverage and other service statistics for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health from survey and health facility data in Guinea

February 11, 2023

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National and subnational coverage and other service statistics for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health from survey and health facility data from Burkina Faso

February 8, 2023

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Readiness of health facilities to provide safe childbirth in Liberia: a cross-sectional analysis of population surveys, facility censuses and facility birth records

January 5, 2023

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Early initiation of breastfeeding is inversely associated with public and private c-sections in 73 lower- and middle-income countries

January 5, 2023

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Prevalence of smoking and smokeless tobacco use during breastfeeding: A cross-sectional secondary data analysis based on 0.32 million sample women in 78 low-income and middle-income countries.

December 12, 2022

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Independent and cumulative effects of risk factors associated with stillbirths in 50 low- and middle-income countries: A multi-country cross-sectional study.

December 12, 2022

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Children of more empowered women are less likely to be left without vaccination in low- and middle-income countries: A global analysis of 50 DHS surveys.

December 12, 2022

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Religious affiliation as a driver of immunization coverage: Analyses of zero-dose vaccine prevalence in 66 low- and middle-income countries

December 12, 2022

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Ethnic inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health interventions in Ecuador: A study of the 2004 and 2012 national surveys

December 12, 2022

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Disparities in early initiation of breast feeding and prelacteal feeding: A study of low- and middle-income countries

December 12, 2022

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Gender-Related Inequality in Childhood Immunization Coverage: A Cross-Sectional Analysis of DTP3 Coverage and Zero-Dose DTP Prevalence in 52 Countries Using the SWPER Global Index

December 12, 2022

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Learning from success cases: ecological analysis of pathways to universal access to family planning care in low- and middle-income countries.

December 12, 2022

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Women’s Empowerment as It Relates to Attitudes Towards and Practice of Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting of Daughters: An Ecological Analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys From 12 African Countries

December 12, 2022

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Ethnic disparities in immunisation: analyses of zero-dose prevalence in 64 countries

December 12, 2022

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Ethnic inequalities in health intervention coverage among Mexican women at the individual and municipality levels

December 12, 2022

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Inequalities in the health, nutrition, and wellbeing of Afrodescendant women and children: A cross-sectional analysis of ten Latin American and Caribbean countries

October 28, 2022

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The role of female permanent contraception in meeting the demand for family planning in low- and middle-income countries,

October 28, 2022

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Exposure of Zero-Dose Children to Multiple Deprivation: Analyses of Data from 80 Low- and Middle-Income Countries

October 28, 2022

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Birth registration coverage according to the sex of the head of household: an analysis of national surveys from 93 low- and middle-income countries

October 28, 2022

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2022 Progress Report on the Every Woman Every Child Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s, and Adolescent’s Health

October 28, 2022

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Delineating natural catchment health districts with routinely collected health data from women’s travel to give birth in Ghana

October 3, 2022

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Tracking Progress for Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health (RMNCH) services in Zambia

August 17, 2022

Zambia Report

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National and subnational coverage and other service statistics for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health from health facility data and surveys for Uganda

August 17, 2022

Analysis Report

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GFF Report on Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health in 36 GFF Supported Countries

August 16, 2022

GFF Report – 2022

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National and subnational coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health from health facility data and surveys, 2017-2021

July 19, 2022

Tanzania Overall Country Report final

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Exploring the sustainability of perinatal audit in four district hospitals in the Western Cape, South Africa: a multiple case study approach

June 24, 2022

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Health service utilisation during the COVID-19 pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa in 2020: a multicountry empirical assessment with a focus on maternal, newborn and child health services

May 19, 2022

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What can work and how? An overview of evidence-based interventions and delivery strategies to support health and human development from before conception to 20 years

May 2, 2022

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Data Uptake Series: Pakistan

April 21, 2022

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Zooming in and out: a holistic framework for research on maternal, late foetal and newborn survival and health

April 11, 2022

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Rates and time trends in the consumption of breastmilk, formula, and animal milk by children younger than 2 years from 2000 to 2019: analysis of 113 countries

February 18, 2022

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Coverage of maternal and child health in slums, rural and urban areas from 42 countries

February 16, 2022

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Endline review of the Investment Case for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Sharpened Plan in Uganda, 2015/16-2019/20

February 16, 2022

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Multiple pathways to scaling up and sustainability: an exploration of digital health solutions in South Africa

February 15, 2022

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Zooming in and out: a holistic framework for research on maternal, late foetal and newborn survival and health

January 14, 2022

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Monitoring progress towards Universal Health Care District EPHS implementation

September 30, 2021

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Pakistan Provincial Profiles

September 30, 2021

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A review of geospatial methods for population estimation and their use in constructing reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health service indicators

September 16, 2021

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The use of health facility data to assess the effects of armed conflicts on maternal and child health: experience from the Kivu, DR Congo

September 16, 2021

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Can routine health facility data be used to monitor subnational coverage of maternal, newborn and child health services in Uganda?

September 16, 2021

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Falling aid for reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in the lead-up to the COVID-19 pandemic

July 27, 2021

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Are rhetorical commitments to adolescents reflected in planning documents? An exploratory content analysis of adolescent sexual and reproductive health in Global Financing Facility country plans

June 21, 2021

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Strengthening Analysis and Evidence for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Nutrition (RMNCAH&N)

May 4, 2021

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Summary report of the first Countdown 2030 analysis workshop in Eastern and Southern Africa

May 4, 2021

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Regional Workshop on Ethnic Inequalities in RMNCH in Latin America and Launch of the Countdown Haiti Case Study

May 4, 2021

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A new content-qualified antenatal care coverage indicator: Development and validation of a score using national health surveys in low- and middle-income countries

April 24, 2021

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Countdown to 2015 country case studies: analysing progress towards maternal and child survival in the Millennium Development Goal era

March 5, 2021

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Special Issue: Countdown to 2015 for Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival

March 5, 2021

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Delivering health and nutrition interventions for women and children in conflict settings: country case studies from the BRANCH Consortium

March 5, 2021

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Measurement of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition

March 5, 2021

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Leave No One Behind

March 5, 2021

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Measuring and Monitoring Coverage and Quality of Care in Low and Middle Income Countries

March 5, 2021

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Women’s and Children’s Health in Conflict Settings

March 5, 2021

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Large and persistent subnational inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health intervention coverage in sub-Saharan Africa.

March 2, 2021

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Are inequities decreasing? Birth registration for children under five in low-income and middle-income countries, 1999-2016.

March 2, 2021

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Improving Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Outcomes in a Decade, Pakistan Report 2020

February 23, 2021

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Trends and determinants of newborn mortality in Kyrgyzstan: a Countdown country case study

February 23, 2021

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Endline review of the Investment Case for Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health Sharpened Plan in Uganda

February 9, 2021

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Improving Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Outcomes in a Decade

February 9, 2021

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A commitment to support the world’s most vulnerable women, children, and adolescents

January 25, 2021

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Doing better for women and children in armed conflict settings

January 25, 2021

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Delivering health and nutrition interventions for women and children in different conflict contexts: a framework for decision making on what, when, and how

January 25, 2021

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Delivering health interventions to women, children, and adolescents in conflict settings: what have we learned from ten country case studies?

January 25, 2021

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The effects of armed conflict on the health of women and children

January 25, 2021

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The political and security dimensions of the humanitarian health response to violent conflict

January 25, 2021

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Measurement and accountability for maternal, newborn and child health: fit for 2030?

January 19, 2021

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Analyses of inequalities in RMNCH: rising to the challenge of the SDGs

December 14, 2020

Victora C, Boerma T, Requejo J, et al

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Child health and nutrition in Peru within an antipoverty political agenda: a Countdown to 2015 country case study.

December 14, 2020

Huicho L, Segura ER, Huayanay-Espinoza CA, de Guzman JN, Restrepo-M_©ndez MC, Tam Y, et al.

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The Countdown for 2015: what lies ahead?

December 14, 2020

Bhutta Z, Chopra M,

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Armed conflicts and national trends in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health in sub-Saharan Africa: what can national health surveys tell us?

December 14, 2020

Boerma T, Tappis H, Saad-Haddad G, et al

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Inequalities in the coverage of place of delivery and skilled birth attendance: analyses of cross-sectional surveys in 80 low and middle-income countries.

December 14, 2020

Joseph G, Silva ICM, Wehrmeister FC, Barros AJD, Victora CG.

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Countdown to 2015: changes in official development assistance to maternal, newborn, and child health in 2009-10, and assessment of progress since 2003

December 14, 2020

Hsu J, Pitt C, Greco G, Berman P, Mills A.

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Examining coverage, content, and impact of maternal nutrition interventions: the case for quality-adjusted coverage measurement

December 14, 2020

Joseph NT, Piwoz E, Lee D, Malata A, Leslie HH, on behalf of the Countdown Coverage Technical Working Group

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Status and drivers of maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health in the Islamic world: a comparative analysis

December 14, 2020

Akseer N, Kamali M, Bakhache N, Mirza M, Mehta S, Al-Gashm S, Bhutta ZA.

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Patterns and determinants of antenatal care utilization: analysis of national survey data in seven countdown countries

December 14, 2020

Saad-Haddad G, DeJong J, Terreri N, Restrepo-Mendez MC, Perin J, Vaz L, et al.

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Countdown to 2015 decade report (2000-10): taking stock of maternal, newborn, and child survival

December 14, 2020

Bhutta Z, Chopra M, et al.

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Timing and number of antenatal care contacts in low and middle-income countries: Analysis in the Countdown to 2030 priority countries

December 14, 2020

Jiwani SS, Amouzou A, Carvajal L, Chou D, Keita Y, Moran AC, Requejo JYaya S, Vaz LME, and Boerma T

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Countdown to 2030: tracking progress towards universal coverage for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health

December 14, 2020

Countdown to 2030 Collaboration.

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Countdown to 2030 for reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health and nutrition

December 14, 2020

Victora C, Requejo J, Boerma T, Amouzou A, Bhutta ZA, Black RE, Chopra M; Countdown to 2030.

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Human resources for maternal, newborn and child health: from measurement and planning to performance for improved health outcomes

December 14, 2020

Gupta, N., Maliqi, B., Fran_ßa, A. et al.

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Discordance in postnatal care between mothers and newborns: Measurement artifact or missed opportunity?

December 14, 2020

Amouzou A, Hazel E, Vaz L, Sanni Y, and Moran AC

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Understanding drivers of domestic public expenditure on reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health in Peru at district level: an ecological study.

December 14, 2020

Huicho L. Hernandez P, Huayanay-Espinoza CA, Segura ER, Nino de Guzman J, Flores-Cordova G, Rivera-Ch M, Friedman HS, Berman P.

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Countries’ progress for women’s and children’s health in the Millennium Development Goal era: the Countdown to 2015 experience

December 14, 2020

Berman, P., Requejo, J., Bhutta, Z.A. et al.

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Monitoring maternal, newborn and child health: understanding key progress indicators

December 14, 2020

This report has been co-produced by Countdown to 2015 and the Health Metrics Network.

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Geospatial estimation of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health indicators: a systematic review of methodological aspects of studies based on household surveys

December 14, 2020

Ferreira LZ, Blumenberg C, Utazi CE, Nilsen K, Hartwig FP, Tatem AJ, et al

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Socioeconomic inequalities in access to skilled birth attendance among urban and rural women in low-income and middle-income countries

December 14, 2020

Joseph G, da Silva ICM, Barros AJD.

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Countdown to 2015 country case studies: what can analysis of national health financing contribute to understanding MDG 4 and 5 progress?

December 14, 2020

Mann, C., Ng, C., Akseer, N. et al.

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Countdown to 2015: assessment of official development assistance to maternal, newborn, and child health, 2003–08

December 14, 2020

Pitt C, Greco G, Powell-Jackson T, Mills A.

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Are the poorest poor being left behind? Estimating global inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health

December 14, 2020

Barros AJD, Wehrmeister FC, Ferreira LZ, et al.

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Absolute income is a better predictor of coverage by skilled birth attendance than relative wealth quintiles in a multicountry analysis: comparison of 100 low- and middle-income countries

December 14, 2020

Joseph G, da Silva ICM, Fink G, Barros AJD, Victora CG.

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Subnational variation for care at birth in Tanzania: is this explained by place, people, money or drugs?.

December 14, 2020

Armstrong, C.E., Martínez-Álvarez, M., Singh, N.S. et al.

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Saving Newborn Lives in Nigeria: Newborn health in the context of the Integrated Maternal, Newborn and Child Health Strategy

December 14, 2020

Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria

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Women, children and adolescents in conflict countries: an assessment of inequalities in intervention coverage and survival

December 14, 2020

Akseer N. Wright J, Tasic Hana

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Assessment of inequalities in coverage of essential reproductive, maternal, newborn, child, and adolescent health interventions in Kenya

December 14, 2020

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Examining national and district-level trends in neonatal health in Peru through an equity lens: a success story driven by political will and societal advocacy

December 14, 2020

Huicho, L., Huayanay-Espinoza, C.A., Herrera-Perez, E. et al.

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Comment: Parliamentarians: leading the change for maternal, newborn, and child survival?

December 14, 2020

Bustreo F, Johnsson A.

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Closing the inequality gaps in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health coverage: slow and fast progressors

December 14, 2020

Amouzou A, Jiwani SS, da Silva ICM Countdown 2030 Coverage Technical Working Group, et al

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Accelerating Kenya’s progress to 2030: understanding the determinants of under-five mortality from 1990 to 2015

December 14, 2020

Keats EC, Macharia W, Singh NS, et al.

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Tanzanian Countdown Country Case Study Group, Tanzania’s Countdown to 2015: an analysis of two decades of progress and gaps for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health, to inform priorities for post-2015

December 14, 2020

Afnan-Holmes H, Magoma M, et al.

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Countdown to 2015 Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival: the 2008 report on tracking coverage for interventions

December 14, 2020

Countdown Coverage Writing Group on behalf of the Countdown to 2015 Core Group.

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How can we realise the full potential of health systems for nutrition?

December 14, 2020

Heidkamp RA, Wilson E, Menon P, Kuo H, Walton S, Gatica-Domínguez G et al.

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Thermal care of newborns: drying and bathing practices in Malawi and Bangladesh

December 14, 2020

Khan SM, Kim ET, Singh K, et al.

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Patterns and trends of postpartum family planning in Ethiopia, Malawi, and Nigeria: evidence of missed opportunities for integration

December 14, 2020

Hounton S, Winfrey W, Barros AJ, Askew I.

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Countdown to 2015 for maternal, newborn, and child survival: Rapid progress is possible, but much more can and must be done.

December 14, 2020

Greco G,Powell-Jackson T, Borghi J, Mills A

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Large and persistent subnational inequalities in reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health intervention coverage in sub-Saharan Africa

December 14, 2020

Faye CM, Wehrmeister FC, Melesse DY, et al

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Reproductive, Maternal, Neonatal and Child Health in Conflict: A Case Study on Syria Using Countdown Indicators.

December 14, 2020

DeJong J, Ghattas H, Bashour H, Mourtada R, Akik C, Reese-Masterson

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Potential confounding in the association between short birth intervals and increased neonatal, infant, and child mortality

December 14, 2020

Perin J, Walker N.

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Assessment of the health system and policy environment as a critical complement to tracking intervention coverage for maternal newborn and child health

December 14, 2020

Countdown Working Group on Health Policy and Health Systems.

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Desigualdades em saúde materno-infantil no Brasil: 20 anos de progresso

December 14, 2020

Barros AJD, Victora CG, Wehrmeister FC, editors.

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Progress and priorities for reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health in Kenya: a Countdown to 2015 country case study

December 14, 2020

Keats EC, Ngugi A, Macharia W, Akseer N, Khaemba EN, Bhatti Z, Rizvi A, Tole J, Bhutta ZA.

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Countdown to 2015: a decade of tracking progress for maternal, newborn, and child survival

December 14, 2020

Victora C, Requejo JH, Bryce J, et al.

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Countdown to 2015: assessment of donor assistance to maternal, newborn and child health between 2003 and 2006

December 14, 2020

Greco G, Powell-Jackson T, Borghi J, Mills A.

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Every Newborn-BIRTH protocol: observational study validating indicators for coverage and quality of maternal and newborn health care in Bangladesh, Nepal and Tanzania.

December 14, 2020

Day LT, Ruysen H, Goreev VS, et al.

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Expenditure tracking and review of reproductive maternal, newborn and child health policy in Pakistan

December 14, 2020

Malik MA, Nahyoun AS, Rizvi A, Bhatti ZA, Bhutta ZA.

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Data Resource Profile: Countdown to 2015: Maternal, Newborn and Child Survival

December 14, 2020

Requejo J, Victora C, Bryce J.

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Comment: Countdown to 2015: A report card on maternal, newborn and child survival

December 14, 2020

Horton R.

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Measurement of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition

December 14, 2020

Marchant, T, et al.

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Countdown to 2015: an analysis of donor funding for prenatal and neonatal health, 2003-2013

December 14, 2020

Pitt C, Grollman C, Mart__nez-_Ålvarez M, Arregoces L, Lawn JE, Borghi J.

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Patterns in coverage of maternal, newborn, and child health interventions: projections of neonatal and under-5 mortality to 2035

December 14, 2020

Walker N, Yenokyan G, Friberg I, Bryce J.

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Countdown to 2015: tracking donor assistance to maternal, newborn, and child health

December 14, 2020

Powell-Jackson T, Borghi J, Mueller D, Patouillard E, Mills A.

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Advancing measurement and monitoring of reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health and nutrition: global and country perspectives

December 14, 2020

Marchant T, Bhutta ZA, Black R, et al

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Coverage and inequalities in maternal and child health interventions in Afghanistan

December 14, 2020

Akseer, N., Bhatti, Z., Rizvi, A. et al.

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Reduction in child mortality in Niger: a Countdown to 2015 country case study.

December 14, 2020

Amouzou A, Habi O, Bensa_Ød K.

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Advances in the measurement of coverage for RMNCH and nutrition: from contact to effective coverage

December 14, 2020

Amouzou A, Leslie HH, Ram M On behalf of the Countdown Coverage Technical Working Group, et al

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Who Delivers without Water? A Multi Country Analysis of Water and Sanitation in the Childbirth Environment

December 14, 2020

Gon G, Restrepo-M_©ndez MC, Campbell,OMR, Barros AJD, Woodd S, Benova L, (2016)

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Equity in maternal, newborn, and child health interventions in Countdown to 2015: a retrospective review of survey data from 54 countries

December 14, 2020

Barros A, Ronsmans C, Axelson H, et al.

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