Report - Every Woman Every Child Progress

Across most measures of health and well-being, children’s and adolescents’ lives have regressed over the past couple of years according to the latest Every Woman Every Child Progress Report. The compounding impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, conflict and climate change, have widened deep-rooted inequalities and placed the progress that has been achieved over the past two decades at great risk.

Children and adolescents face wildly divergent chances of leading a healthy life simply based on where they are born, as seen by a devastating 17-year survival gap between children born in low-and high-income countries. And a woman in sub-Saharan Africa has around a 130 times higher risk of dying from causes relating to pregnancy or childbirth than a woman in Europe or North America.

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The report describes the impacts of these crises on women, children and adolescents, from immunization to maternal mortality to malnutrition. The number of un- or under-vaccinated children increased by a staggering 6 million from 2019 to 2021, increasing their risk of contracting deadly and debilitating diseases. And more than 45 million children had acute malnutrition in 2020, a life-threatening condition that leaves them vulnerable to death and developmental delays.

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We must commit to investing in primary healthcare systems, empowering children and adolescents and to protecting their health and rights. A more just and equitable world is within our sight.

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Mark Hereward

Chief Data Officer

Division of Data, Analytics,

Planning and Monitoring

UNICEF

Aboubacar Kampo

Director, Health

Programme Group

UNICEF