Kampala hosts key meeting on maternal and newborn health

The Maternal and Newborn Working Group (MNWG) of the INDEPTH Network met from June 15-16, 2016 in Kampala, Uganda, to discuss the measurement agenda for the UN Every Newborn Action Plan (ENAP).

The meeting was aimed at discussing and developing methods for improving how to measure correctly rates of mortality and other outcomes including pregnancy rates, maternal, neonatal and stillbirth rates in surveys such as Demographic Surveillance Surveys (DHS), Multi Indicator Surveys (MICS), and HDSS centres.

 The second objective was to evaluate the best and most cost-effective ways for survey modules to capture birth outcomes.

Participants also discussed increasing the accuracy and consistency of neonatal cause of death attribution. The outputs will inform the UN SDG agenda especially around measurement of indicators for maternal, newborn and child health.

Read more about the meeting from an interview with the Maternal and Newborn Working Group (MNWG) Team Leader Professor Peter Waiswa