Progress in improving maternal and newborn health (MNH) has been achieved in recent years, in great part, by increasing coverage of antenatal, intrapartum, postnatal and newborn care. Yet further improvements on the road to attaining the Sustainable Development Goals will require attention to the quality of services being provided. This means the right provider, delivering the right care, with the right health products, in the right environment. The Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere (EWENE) partnership supports countries to move beyond mere availability of health products to focus on functional access, which entails a supportive policy environment, quality products, service readiness, and last-mile delivery. A central challenge to achieving consistent access, however, remains the fragmentation of the product access ecosystem at global, national and subnational levels, a factor even more acute in the current scenario of diminishing resources.
In response to these challenges, EWENE has formed the MNH Products Working Group and is launching a four-part webinar series, organized by Unitaid and Concept Foundation, to strengthen coordination, reduce fragmentation, and establish a common language for improved access to quality products. The aim is to develop a vision of “what good access looks like” and a framework of action that supports national progress. This common vision and common language will support countries as they assess their situation and strengthen their national acceleration plans on the road to the International Maternal Newborn Health Conference in Nairobi in March 2026. This series will create a dedicated space for dialogue across the many dimensions of access, creating an understanding of the interdependencies of the technical, regulatory, and operational elements of a well-functioning product access system. By fostering stronger alignment through a shared vision and language, we seek to emerge from isolated actions to coordinated results.
The fourth webinar in the Every Woman Every Newborn Everywhere (EWENE) series — hosted by EWENE and co-organised by Unitaid and the Concept Foundation — will focus on strengthening product ecosystems for maternal newborn health (MNH).
Too many life-saving products still fail to reach women and newborns at the point of care. Fragmentation, misaligned systems, and inconsistent standards continue to hold us back. This session, Aligning resources with results: Sustainable financing for maternal newborn health products, will explore how financing instruments, in the midst of the current funding climate, can strengthen sustainable access to MNH products.
The first webinar in our four-part series, Product access equity for every mother and every newborn, brought togther global, regional, and national perspectives to tackle the challenge of sustainable MNH product access head-on. It explored what alignment and coordination within the global MNH product ecosystem really mean — and how countries, donors, and partners can work from the same playbook to build a more connected, responsive system.
Our second webinar in this series, Quality without compromise: Ensuring safe products for every woman and every newborn, takes participants along the MNH product journey – from production to patient – illustrating how bottlenecks in manufacturing, regulation, and post-marketing surveillance can undermine quality and trust.
Through real-world examples and expert insights, the session highlights practical actions to strengthen quality systems and ensure that every product reaching mothers and newborns is safe and effective, every time. The discussion focused on shared responsibility, collaboration, and continuous improvement as essential to protecting lives and advancing equity in MNH care globally.
This is the third webinar in this dynamic series focused on breaking down silos and strengthening access to life-saving maternal and newborn health (MNH) products.
Too many life-saving, quality-assured products fail to reach women and newborns at the point of care.
This webinar explores how value-based procurement approaches can strengthen access to quality-assured MNH products, drawing on practical examples from across the procurement ecosystem.