Commitments to support every newborn

Overview

Significant progress has been achieved to improve the lives of women and children around the world. Since the launch of the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Global Strategy for Women’s and Children’s Health and Every Woman Every Child, a movement and multistakeholder partnership that has generated new attention and investment in women’s and children’s health, the numbers of maternal and child deaths have decreased significantly. However, too many newborns continue to die each year of mainly preventable causes, prompting the advancement of the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP), a roadmap and joint action platform to reduce preventable newborn mortality and stillbirths.