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  • Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 on global, regional, and national stillbirths at 20 weeks' gestation or longer in 204 countries and territories for the period 1990–2021 are available here. Regardless of the gestational cut-off, countries in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia collectively accounted for almost three-quarters of all stillbirths.
  • The Child Health and Well-being Dashboard from WHO, UNICEF and CAP-2030 tracks indicators on childhood survival, development, protection and participation, as well as related policies. Stillbirth data from nearly 200 countries are available.
  • UNICEF/UN-IGME stillbirth data can be found here
  • The Healthy Newborn Network has updated its Newborn Numbers page and related tools with the latest data to help guide country and regional policies, planning, and implementation of life saving interventions to avert preventable newborn and maternal deaths, and stillbirths.
  • World Health Organization (WHO) Global Health Observatory 
  • The UN-IGME website for child mortality estimates now includes a stillbirth database and estimates.
  • The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), White Ribbon Alliance, and Every Woman Every Child, sponsored the annual “Accountability Breakfast 2020: Advancing Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health During COVID-19” in September 2020. The event was watched by more than 2,200 people from 110+ countries representing governments, health practitioners, UN agencies, the private sector, civil society, media, researchers and academia. 
  • Launch event for the Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP): Every Newborn Coverage Targets and Milestones for 2025 in September 2020. The event can be viewed on YouTube and the slide deck can be found here; All the documents presented during the launch can be found at this link and include:
    • Every Newborn Coverage Targets and Milestones to 2025
    • Survive and Thrive Transforming Care for Newborns (2019)
    • Standards of Care for Newborn Health (2020)
  • ENAP was endorsed by the UN in 2014, and set the first global goals for stillbirth rate reduction. ENAP tracking is undertaken in high-burden countries annually by UNICEF (90 countries in 2019).
  • 2014 WHO resolution endorsing ENAP 
  • 2018 ENAP Progress Report
  • Every Newborn Report & Executive Summary 2019 (2020)
  • The first UN-IGME stillbirth report, A Neglected Tragedy, was published on Oct 8, 2020 with updated data tables
    • Photos from the report are available here. Please credit UNICEF wherever these are used.
    • In addition, Key Messages in English, Arabic, Chinese, French, Spanish and Russian and social media materials in Arabic, French and Spanish are available upon request from UNICEF; email info@stillbirthalliance.org to request.
  • The Every Newborn-INDEPTH study involved >68,000 births and aimed to provide evidence to improve population-based survey data regarding pregnancy outcomes. Each year there are 5.1 million neonatal deaths and stillbirths, plus about 0.3 million maternal deaths worldwide. The study was conducted in five Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) sites from the INDEPTH Network in Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea-Bissau and Uganda, plus a coordinating team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and Makerere University School of Public. 
  • The EN-BIRTH study involved observing >23,000 births using an innovative tablet-based system to validate data from routine facility registers and women’s survey report. The study was conducted in five hospitals in Bangladesh, Nepal and Tanzania, coordinated by a team at LSHTM. The protocol was published in 2019 and the main study paper is in The Lancet Global Health.