{"id":44778,"date":"2020-06-04T09:20:58","date_gmt":"2020-06-04T13:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=news-item&#038;p=44778"},"modified":"2021-08-09T15:34:33","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T19:34:33","slug":"who-manifesto-for-a-healthy-recovery-from-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"news-item","link":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/news-item\/who-manifesto-for-a-healthy-recovery-from-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row sf-detail-content\" data-sf-element=\"Row\">\n<div id=\"PageContent_T0643CD2A004_Col00\" class=\"sf_colsIn col-md-8\" data-sf-element=\"Column 1\" data-placeholder-label=\"Item header\">\n<div class=\"sf-item-header-wrapper\">\n<h2>Prescriptions for a healthy and green recovery from COVID-19<\/h2>\n<div class=\"date\"><span class=\"timestamp\">26 May 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"PageContent_T0643CD2A004_Col01\" class=\"sf_colsIn col-sm-4 col-md-4\" data-sf-element=\"Column 2\" data-placeholder-label=\"Toolbox\">\n<div class=\"language-selector language-selector-page\">\n<ul class=\"sf-lang-selector list-inline\">\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"social-share--add-this share\">\n<div class=\"addthis_inline_share_toolbox\" data-description=\"Prescriptions for a healthy and green recovery from the World Health Organization\" data-title=\"WHO Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/feature-stories\/detail\/who-manifesto-for-a-healthy-recovery-from-covid-19\">\n<div id=\"atstbx\" class=\"at-resp-share-element at-style-responsive addthis-smartlayers addthis-animated at4-show\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"at-d392e503-5cf2-4f36-b140-300b5cfdb948\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"at-share-btn-elements\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row sf-detail-content\" data-sf-element=\"Row\">\n<div id=\"PageContent_T0643CD2A003_Col00\" class=\"sf_colsIn col-md-8\" data-sf-element=\"Column 1\" data-placeholder-label=\"Body\">\n<article class=\"sf-detail-body-wrapper\">\n<div>\n<p><em>&#8220;The pandemic is a reminder of the intimate and delicate relationship between people and planet. Any efforts to make our world safer are doomed to fail unless they address the critical interface between people and pathogens, and the existential threat of climate change, that is making our Earth less habitable.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Address to the 73rd World Health Assembly.\u00a0 May 18<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a02020.<\/p>\n<h2>What we have learned from COVID-19<\/h2>\n<p>COVID-19 is the greatest global shock in decades.\u00a0 Hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost, and the world\u2019s economy likely faces the worst recession since the 1930s.\u00a0 The resulting loss of employment and income will cause further damage to livelihoods, health, and sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>Societies need to protect themselves, and to recover, as quickly as possible.\u00a0 But we cannot go back to the way we did things before.\u00a0 \u00a0Increasing numbers of infectious diseases, including HIV\/AIDS, SARS and Ebola, have made the jump from wildlife to humans &#8211; and all available evidence suggests that COVID-19 has followed the same route. Once human-to-human transmission of COVID-19 began, national and international surveillance and response systems were not strong or fast enough to completely halt transmission.\u00a0 And as infections spread, a lack of universal health coverage has left billions of people, including many in rich countries, without reliable and affordable access to medical treatment.\u00a0 Massive inequalities have meant that deaths and loss of livelihoods have been strongly driven by socioeconomic status, often compounded by gender and minority status.<\/p>\n<p>Attempting to save money by neglecting environmental protection, emergency preparedness, health systems, and social safety nets, has proven to be a false economy \u2013 and the bill is now being paid many times over.\u00a0 The world cannot afford repeated disasters on the scale of COVID-19, whether they are triggered by the next pandemic, or from mounting environmental damage and climate change. Going back to \u201cnormal\u201d is not good enough.<\/p>\n<p>In adversity, the crisis has also brought out some of the best in our societies, from solidarity among neighbours, to the bravery of health and other key workers in facing down risks to their own health to serve their communities, to countries working together to provide emergency relief or to research treatments and vaccines. The \u201clockdown\u201d measures that have been necessary to control the spread of COVID-19 have slowed economic activity, and disrupted lives &#8211; but have also given some glimpses of a possible brighter future. In some places, pollution levels have dropped to such an extent that people have breathed clean air, or have seen blue skies and clear waters, or have been able to walk and cycle safely with their children &#8211; for the first times in their lives.\u00a0 The use of digital technology has accelerated new ways of working and connecting with each other, from reducing time spent commuting, to more flexible ways of studying, to carrying out medical consultations remotely, to spending more time with our families. Opinion polls from around the world show that people want to protect the environment, and preserve the positives that have emerged from the crisis, as we recover.<\/p>\n<p>National governments are now committing trillions of dollars, in a matter of weeks, to maintain and eventually resuscitate economy activity.\u00a0 These investments are essential to safeguard people\u2019s livelihoods, and therefore their health.\u00a0 But the allocation of these investments, and the policy decisions that will guide both short- and long-term recovery, have the potential to shape the way we live our lives, work and consume for years to come. Nowhere is this more important than in their effects on environmental degradation and pollution, and particularly on the greenhouse gas emissions that are driving global warming and the climate crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Decisions made in the coming months can either \u201clock in\u201d economic development patterns that will do permanent and escalating damage to the ecological systems that sustain all human health and livelihoods, or, if wisely taken, can promote a healthier, fairer, and greener world.<\/p>\n<h2>Prescriptions for a healthy, green recovery<\/h2>\n<h3>1) Protect and preserve the source of human health: Nature.<\/h3>\n<p>Economies are a product of healthy human societies, which in turn rely on the natural environment &#8211; the original source of all clean air, water, and food. Human pressures, from deforestation, to intensive and polluting agricultural practices, to unsafe management and consumption of wildlife, undermine these services. They also increase the risk of\u00a0emerging infectious diseases in humans\u00a0 \u2013 over 60% of which originate from animals, mainly from wildlife. Overall plans for post-COVID-19 recovery, and specifically plans to reduce the risk of future epidemics, need to go further upstream than early detection and control of disease outbreaks. They also need to lessen our impact on the environment, so as to reduce the risk at source.<\/p>\n<h3>2) Invest in essential services, from water and sanitation to clean energy in healthcare facilities.<\/h3>\n<p>Around the world, billions of people lack access to the most basic services that are required to protect their health, whether from COVID-19, or any other risk. Handwashing facilities are essential for the prevention of infectious disease transmission, but are lacking in 40 % of households. Antimicrobial-resistant pathogens are widespread in water and waste and their sound management is needed to prevent the spread back to humans. In particular it is essential that health care facilities be equipped with water and sanitation services, including the soap and water that constitutes the most basic intervention to cut transmission of SARS-CoV-2 and other infections, access to reliable energy that is necessary to safely carry out most medical procedures, and occupational protection for health workers.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, avoidable environmental and occupational risks cause about one quarter of all deaths in the world. Investment in healthier environments for health protection, environmental regulation, and ensuring that health systems are climate resilient, is both an essential guardrail against future disaster, and offers some of the best returns for society.\u00a0 For example, every dollar that was invested in strengthening the US Clean Air Act has paid back 30 dollars in benefit to US citizens, through improved air quality and better health.<\/p>\n<h3>3) Ensure a quick healthy energy transition.<\/h3>\n<p>Currently, over seven million people a year die from exposure to air pollution \u2013 1 in 8 of all deaths. Over 90% of people breathe outdoor air with pollution levels exceeding WHO air quality guideline values.\u00a0 Two-thirds of this exposure to outdoor pollution results from the burning of the same fossil fuels that are driving climate change .<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, renewable energy sources and storage continue to drop in price, increase in reliability, and provide more numerous, safer and higher paid jobs. Energy infrastructure decisions taken now will be locked in for decades to come. Factoring in the full economic and social consequences, and taking decisions in the public health interest, will tend to favour renewable energy sources, leading to cleaner environments and healthier people.<\/p>\n<p>Several of the countries that were earliest and hardest hit by COVID-19, such as Italy and Spain, and those that were most successful in controlling the disease, such as South Korea and New Zealand, have put green development alongside health at the heart of their COVID-19 recovery strategies. A rapid global transition to clean energy would not only meet the Paris climate agreement goal of\u00a0 keeping warming below 2C,\u00a0 but would also improve air quality to such an extent that the resulting health gains would repay the cost of the investment twice over.<\/p>\n<h3>4) Promote healthy, sustainable food systems.<\/h3>\n<p>Diseases caused by either lack of access to food, or consumption of unhealthy, high calorie diets, are now the single largest cause of global ill health. They also increase vulnerability to other risks &#8211; conditions such as obesity and diabetes are among the largest risk factors for illness and death from COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture, particularly clearing of land to rear livestock, contributes about \u00bc of global greenhouse gas emissions, and land use change is the single biggest environmental driver of new disease outbreaks. There is a need for a rapid transition to healthy, nutritious and sustainable diets. If the world were able to meet WHO\u2019s dietary guidelines, this would save millions of lives, reduce disease risks, and bring major reductions in global greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<h3>5) Build healthy, liveable cities.<\/h3>\n<p>Over half of the world\u2019s population now lives in cities, and they are responsible for over 60% of both economic activity and greenhouse gas emissions. As cities have relatively high population densities and are traffic-saturated, many trips can be taken more efficiently by public transport, walking and cycling, than by private cars. This also brings major health benefits through reducing air pollution, road traffic injuries \u2013 and the over three million annual deaths from physical inactivity.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the largest and most dynamic cities in the world, such as Milan, Paris, and London, have reacted to the COVID-19 crisis by pedestrianizing streets and massively expanding cycle lanes &#8211; enabling \u201cphysically distant\u201d transport during the crisis, and enhancing economic activity and quality of life afterwards.<\/p>\n<h3>6) Stop using taxpayers money to fund pollution.<\/h3>\n<p>The economic damage from COVID-19 and the necessary control measures, is very real, and will place huge pressure on Government finances. Financial reform will be unavoidable in recovering from COVID-19, and a good place to start is with fossil fuel subsidies.<\/p>\n<p>Globally, about US$400 billion every year of taxpayers money is spent directly subsidizing the fossil fuels that are driving climate change and causing air pollution. Furthermore, private and social costs generated by health and other impacts from such pollution are generally not built into the price of fuels and energy. Including the damage to health and the environment that they cause, brings the real value of the subsidy to over US$5 trillion per year-\u00a0 more than all governments around the world spend on healthcare \u2013 and about 2,000 times the budget of WHO.<\/p>\n<p>Placing a price on polluting fuels in line with the damage they cause would approximately halve outdoor air pollution deaths, cut greenhouse gas emissions by over a quarter, and raise about 4% of global GDP in revenue. We should stop paying the pollution bill, both through our pockets and our lungs.<\/p>\n<h2>A global movement for health and the environment<\/h2>\n<p>The COVID-19 crisis has shown that people will support even difficult policies if decision-making is transparent, evidence-based, and inclusive, and has the clear aim of protecting their health, their families and their livelihoods &#8211; rather than serving special interests.<\/p>\n<p>This needs to be reflected in the way that policy is made. In most countries, Finance Ministries will take the lead in defining COVID-19 economic recovery packages. Given the integral connection between the environment, health and the economy, it is also important that health leaders, such as Chief Medical Officers, are directly involved in their design, report on the short- and long-term public health repercussions that they may have, and give their stamp of approval.<\/p>\n<p>Most fundamentally, protecting lives, livelihoods and the environment depends on the support of the people. There is widespread public support for policies that do not seek only to maximize GDP, but to protect and enhance wellbeing, and for governments to combat climate change and environmental destruction with the same seriousness with which they are now fighting COVID-19. It is also shown by the millions of young people who have mobilized to demand action not only on climate and biodiversity &#8211; but also for the right to breathe clean air, and for their future on a liveable planet.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/images\/default-source\/health-and-climate-change\/quote-card-maria.jpg?sfvrsn=b0f07471_1\" alt=\"\" width=\"744\" \/>The health community is increasingly an ally in this goal. Healthworkers are the single most trusted profession in the world. Their skill, dedication, bravery and compassion has saved countless lives during the COVID-19 crisis \u2013 raising them to even higher levels of respect in their communities. Health professionals from around the world have shown that they are also strong supporters of action to protect the environment \u2013 and thereby the health of the populations that they serve. They are ready to be champions for the green, healthy and prosperous societies of the future, as evidenced in a recent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/healthyrecovery.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-sf-ec-immutable=\"\"><strong>open letter to G20 leaders<\/strong><\/a>, in which health professionals from around the world called for a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/healthyrecovery.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-sf-ec-immutable=\"\">healthy recovery from COVID-19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7211,"featured_media":44779,"template":"","acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Healthy Newborn Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/news-item\/who-manifesto-for-a-healthy-recovery-from-covid-19\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"WHO Manifesto for a healthy recovery from COVID-19 - Healthy Newborn Network\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Prescriptions for a healthy and green recovery from COVID-19 26 May 2020 &nbsp; &#8220;The pandemic is a reminder of the intimate and delicate relationship between people and planet. 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Working through offices in more than 150 countries, WHO staff work side by side with governments and other partners to ensure the highest attainable level of health for all people.\r\n\r\nTogether we strive to combat diseases \u2013 infectious diseases like influenza and HIV and noncommunicable ones like cancer and heart disease. We help mothers and children survive and thrive so they can look forward to a healthy old age. We ensure the safety of the air people breathe, the food they eat, the water they drink \u2013 and the medicines and vaccines they need.","post_title":"World Health Organization","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"world-health-organization","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2017-10-02 14:54:45","post_modified_gmt":"2017-10-02 18:54:45","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=partner&#038;p=21084","menu_order":0,"post_type":"partner","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"issues":[{"ID":120,"post_author":"7211","post_date":"2015-10-21 15:18:23","post_date_gmt":"2015-10-21 15:18:23","post_content":"[vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" css=\".vc_custom_1453403441710{margin-top: -60px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h2>Information on the number, timing, and causes of stillbirth and neonatal death, as well as the care received by each mother and baby, is crucial for planning and delivering high-quality health services.<\/h2>\r\nWhile data availability and quality have improved in recent years, there are still big gaps in indicators for newborn care. The Every Newborn Action Plan Measurement Improvement Roadmap details the challenges in measurement and provides a multi-year, multi-partner pathway to improving metrics, including testing and standardizing indicator definitions and developing new tools.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\" el_class=\"issue-stats\"][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-red\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">71\r\n<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1513274052338{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">percentage of newborn deaths that are preventable with access to quality health care\r\n<\/span><\/h3>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-yellow\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">1<\/span>\/<span class=\"ticker\">3<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1517246179677{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">babies do not have a birth certificate by their first\u00a0birthday<\/span><\/h3>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-blue\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">10<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1456360643415{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]\r\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number of priority Every Newborn indicators identified<\/span><\/h3>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner][vc_separator][vc_column_text]\r\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>All data on this page represents the most recent data available, unless otherwise noted. Please visit our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/numbers\/\">Newborn Numbers<\/a>\u00a0page and download the Excel spreadsheet to explore the data further.<\/em><\/h6>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=\"More information\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/numbers\/\">Newborn Numbers<\/a> for more newborn health specific epidemiology including rates, trends, and causes of death.\r\n\r\nEpidemiology is the \u201cstudy of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events (including disease), and the application of this study to the control of diseases and other health problems.\u201d Epidemiology examines how health conditions are distributed among a population and seeks to understand the risks or causes associated with those conditions.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]The numbers of stillbirths and neonatal deaths, and the causes, are generated through modeled estimates using information from national civil registration databases, household surveys, surveillance systems, and special studies. High-quality, universal birth and death registration are required to provide nationally representative, timely data, and to signify a shift in social norms to value counting every newborn baby and stillbirth. Increasing global momentum to improve the data is important, and highlights the human face of those who are counted the least\u2014newborn babies and stillbirths.[\/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=\"Key resources\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/Every-Newborn-Metrics-Cards_3.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Every Newborn Metrics Report Cards<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/supplements\/volume-15-supplement-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Count every newborn, a measurement improvement roadmap for coverage data<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/series\/everynewborn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Lancet Every Newborn Series (2014)<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/every-newborn-action-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Every Newborn Action Plan<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/handle\/10665\/184225\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The WHO Technical consultation on newborn health indicators<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/handle\/10665\/153544\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Strategies toward ending preventable maternal mortality (EPMM)<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthdatacollaborative.org\/fileadmin\/uploads\/hdc\/Documents\/the-roadmap-for-health-measurement-and-accountability.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Roadmap for Health Measurement and Accountability<\/a><\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/teams\/maternal-newborn-child-adolescent-health-and-ageing\/epidemiology-monitoring-and-evaluation\/maternal-health\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WHO Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health and Ageing (Maternal and newborn health monitoring)<\/a><\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]","post_title":"Epidemiology","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"data-epidemiology","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-10-19 17:59:04","post_modified_gmt":"2022-10-19 21:59:04","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=issue&#038;p=120","menu_order":0,"post_type":"issue","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":49497,"post_author":"7211","post_date":"2021-08-04 20:35:27","post_date_gmt":"2021-08-05 00:35:27","post_content":"[vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" css=\".vc_custom_1453403441710{margin-top: -60px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_column][vc_column_text]\r\n<h2>COVID-19 disease<\/h2>\r\nAccording to the World Health Organization, the COVID-19 virus spreads primarily through droplets of saliva or discharge from the nose when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Current evidence indicates that COVID-19 does not appear to directly impact newborns. Few novel coronavirus infections have been reported in newborns, and these were almost uniformly asymptomatic. The few that had symptoms were reported to have mild illness.\r\n<h2><strong>There is no evidence of vertical mother-to-newborn transmission during pregnancy or via breastfeeding.<\/strong><\/h2>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]\r\n<h2>Indirect adverse effects of COVID-19 on pregnancy and newborns<\/h2>\r\nWhereas the <strong>direct effects of COVID-19 on pregnancy and newborns are minimal, indirect adverse effects are becoming increasingly apparent<\/strong> and important areas of concern. These include potential disruptions of routine maternal and newborn health (MNH) care that is essential for the health and survival of mothers and newborns. Countries\u2019 responses to the pandemic \u2013 such as social distancing measures \u2013 can pose threats to continuing best practices by health care providers, as well as to home caregiver practices that are essential to newborn health and survival. Leading <strong>examples of these threats to best MNH practices<\/strong> include:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>separation of mothers and newborns instead of promoting immediate skin-to-skin contact and rooming in, in facilities, and<\/li>\r\n \t<li>immediate and exclusive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/issue\/breastfeeding-and-feeding-of-small-and-sick-newborns\/\">breastfeeding<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/issue\/kangaroo-mother-care\/\">Kangaroo Mother Care (KMC)<\/a> for preterm and small babies.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nThus, pandemic mitigation by social distancing should not result in unintended harm to mothers and their newborns.\r\n\r\nThere is also a risk to mothers and babies that pandemic responses limit needed psychosocial support to mothers during pregnancy, delivery, and in the postpartum period. Additionally, the economic toll of the pandemic response poses serious risks to many families \u2013 especially mothers and newborns \u2013 living in poverty or near-poverty. Policies and programs must recognize and take steps to prevent or ameliorate these important risks which may otherwise be overlooked. These can include food insecurity, loss of livelihoods, misinformation, and lockdown-induced social isolation and loss of vital community\/family support.\r\n\r\nThe World Health Organization (WHO) and partners continue to monitor the evidence and provide guidance accordingly.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" css=\".vc_custom_1452696349804{margin-top: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #f6f6f4 !important;}\"][vc_column][vc_column_text]<strong>Key Resources:<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/publications\/i\/item\/WHO-2019-nCoV-clinical-2021-2\">Living guidance for clinical management of COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0(WHO)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/questions-and-answers-covid-19-vaccines-and-pregnancy\/\">Questions and Answers: COVID-19 vaccines and pregnancy<\/a> (WHO)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/coronavirus\/navigating-pregnancy-during-coronavirus-disease-covid-19-pandemic\">Navigating pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic \u2013 How to best protect yourself and your baby<\/a> (UNICEF)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/event\/maintaining-essential-mnch-services-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-lessons-from-19-countries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maintaining essential MNCH services during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons from 19 countries<\/a> (WHO)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019\/technical-guidance\">View WHO Technical and Country Guidance<\/a> (WHO)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019\/question-and-answers-hub\/q-a-detail\/q-a-on-covid-19-pregnancy-and-childbirth\">COVID-19, pregnancy &amp; childbirth<\/a> (WHO)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/action\/showPdf?pii=S1473-3099%2820%2930157-2\">Guideline for pregnant women with suspected SARS-CoV-2 infection<\/a> (Lancet)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/coronavirus?dgcid=kr_pop-up_tlcoronavirus20\">Covid-19 Resource Center\u00a0<\/a>(Lancet)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019\/question-and-answers-hub\/q-a-detail\/q-a-on-covid-19-and-breastfeeding\">COVID-19 &amp; breastfeeding<\/a> (WHO)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/news-room\/commentaries\/detail\/breastfeeding-and-covid-19\">Breastfeeding and COVID-19 Scientific Brief<\/a> (WHO)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/guidelines-for-continued-newborn-healthcare-during-the-covid-19-pandemic\/\">Guidelines for continued newborn healthcare during the COVID-19 pandemic: compiled programmatic information for implementers and project managers<\/a> (WHO)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/covid-19-technical-brief-for-antenatal-care-services\/\">COVID-19 Technical Brief for Antenatal Care Services<\/a> (UNFPA)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/covid-19-technical-brief-for-maternal-services\/\">COVID-19 Technical Brief for Maternal Service<\/a> (UNFPA)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancingnutrition.org\/news-events\/2020\/04\/24\/infant-and-young-child-feeding-recommendations-when-covid-19-suspected-or\">Infant and Young Child Feeding Recommendations When COVID-19 is Suspected or Confirmed<\/a> (USAID, UNICEF &amp; IFE)<\/li>\r\n \t<li><a href=\"https:\/\/resourcecentre.savethechildren.net\/library\/iycf-tools-context-covid-19\">Infant and Young Child Feeding Tools in the Context of COVID-19<\/a> (Save the Children)<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Additional resources are regularly updated on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/emergencies\/diseases\/novel-coronavirus-2019\">WHO website<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]","post_title":"COVID-19","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"covid-19","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2022-09-30 17:57:07","post_modified_gmt":"2022-09-30 21:57:07","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=issue&#038;p=49497","menu_order":0,"post_type":"issue","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"regions":[],"countries":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-item\/44778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news-item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-item\/44778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}