Around the world, stillbirth impacts on millions of families and communities each
year [
[1]
,
[2]
]. The importance of addressing this international tragedy has been recognised in
recent years with the Global Strategy for Women, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health
[
[3]
] and the Every Newborn Action Plan [
[4]
,
[5]
] including a target for reducing stillbirths. In 2014, the World Health Assembly
endorsed a target of 12 or fewer stillbirths per 1000 births in every country by 2030
[
[1]
].To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
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- Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescent’s Health 2016-2030.United Nations, New York2015
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September 14,
2020
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