Self-Care: A Cost Effective Solution for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health for All
This policy brief is based on a review of literature and interviews with community health, quality-of-care, self-care and MNCH experts.
It explores the possibilities and advantages of a paradigm shift in MNCH that would make self-care a central operating premise. It is also meant to serve as a call to action for all those in a position to ensure that the women and children have the support to realize most basic of desires: to care for themselves.

- Self-Care: Better Daily Health for Individuals and Societies
- Who Self-Cares Wins
- Acceleration of Self-Care in the Time of COVID-19
- Early Estimates of the Indirect Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Maternal and Child Mortality in Low-income and Middle-income Countries: a Modelling Study
- WHO Consolidated Guideline on Self-care Interventions for Health: Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
- Advocacy Roadmap- Igniting a Self-Care Movement for Sexual and Reproductive Health
- Self-Care Quality of Care Framework
- Building Resilient Societies after COVID-19: The Case for Investing in Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health
- Nutrition Critical: Why We Must Act Now to Tackle Child Malnutrition
- The Added Value of Costing Social and Behavior Change Interventions
- Self-Care in Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: A New Frontier in Healthcare
- Is Contraceptive Self-injection Cost-effective Compared to Contraceptive Injections from Facility-Based health Workers? Evidence from Uganda
- Costs and Cost-effectiveness of Subcutaneous DMPA through Different Delivery Channels: What the Evidence Tells Us
- Report on National Family Health Campaign
- 7 Acts of Self-care You Can Practice during a Winter Lockdown
September 3, 2020