UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund

Published purpose

The Health for the Poorest Populations (HPP) program supports the integrated delivery of essential health and nutrition services across the continuum of care including maternal health during pregnancy, childbirth, the post natal period and childhood. UNICEF works with partner country Ministries of Health and within national health systems to identify country-specific needs with a focus on the greatest causes of maternal and child deaths and disabilities in the worst-off districts in terms of poverty, level of access to health services and population health status. Analyses on the burden of disease affecting populations of pregnant women, newborns and children under five are carried out to customize an effective and responsive package of health care services. Programming includes training and the provision of medicines to treat primarily, pneumonia, diarrhoea and malaria. The HPP program is implemented in a maximum of four high burden countries, at least 75% of which are in Sub-Saharan Africa.