Pregnancy

This page provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. Also shown are links to related web sites and topics.

MeSH scope note: The condition of having a developing embryo or fetus in the body, after union of an ovum and spermatozoon. (Dorland, 27th ed)

RELATED SITES

- Making pregnancy safer
- Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health
- World Health Day 2005: maternal health
- WHO and the Millennium Development Goals
- Pregnancy (European Region)
- Making pregnancy safer (South-East Asia Region)
- Maternal and newborn care (Western Pacific Region)
- Maternal health (Regional Office for the Americas)

PUBLICATIONS

- New publication: New strategic approach to dramatically reduce maternal deaths
- Publications: Making Pregnancy Safer
- Publications: maternal and newborn health

RELATED LINKS

- Feto-maternal nutrition and low birth weight
- Infant and neonatal health and development
- Mother-to-child transmission of HIV
- Malaria: pregnant women and infants
- Maternal and newborn health
- Reproductive health library: pregnancy and childbirth

FEATURES

- Great expectations
- Q&A: Why do so many women still die in pregnancy or childbirth?
- Lives at risk: malaria in pregnancy