Community-Based Maternal and Newborn Health Care: Bringing care closer to home in humanitarian and fragile settings

The burden of maternal and newborn death is disproportionately high in countries affected by humanitarian crises – 64% of global maternal deaths, 50% of newborn deaths, and 51% of stillbirths occur in the 29 countries with UN Humanitarian Appeals in 2023. Most of these deaths are preventable with access to simple, low-cost, low-tech interventions that rarely reach the people who need them.