This database includes all the communications materials produced by Countdown researchers, such as:
– Journal articles: research published in peer-reviewed journals.
– Journal commentaries: editorials and commentaries published in peer-reviewed journals.
– Country analytical reports: longer documents that pertain to a particular country.
– Multicountry and other reports: longer documents that present trends and data from more than one country.
– Short communications: policy briefs, conference and meeting posters, blog posts published on other websites, and data uptake series briefs.
– Webinars and short tutorial videos: these are also searchable on Countdown’s YouTube channel.
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Information sources not included in this database are the country profiles for early childhood development, equity and RMNCAH and the “what’s new” blog posts published on the Countdown website.

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Senegal Synthesis Report 2025 (French)

Ahmadou Bouya Ndao, Tidiane Gadiaga, Omar Bassoum, Mory Touré, Diarra Camara Racine, Khaly Gueye, Adja Aminata Mbengue, Ndèye Awa Fall. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2025, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/SENEGAL-Chartbook-Report-CAM-2025.pdf-FINAL.pdf

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Mauritania Synthesis Report 2025 (French)

Diop Cheikhou Oumar, Hampâté Oumar Bâ, Harouna Ismail, Aw Boubacar, Amal Tucker Brown, Ndèye Awa Fall. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2000, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/MAURITANIE-Chartbook-Report-CAM-2025.pdf.pdf

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Madagascar Synthesis Report 2025 (French)

RAJOELINA Miary Toky Herindrainy, ANDRIANIRINARISON Jean Claude, RASOLOHARIVOLOLONA Alice, ANDRIAMBELO Mialy Mathieu, RAKOTOMANANA Andrimbazotiana Harilaza, NDOUR Ndèye Dibor. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2025, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/MADAGASCAR-Chartbook-Report-CAM-2025.pdf.pdf

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Guinea Synthesis Report 2025 (French)

Anne Marie Soumah, Almamy Amara Toure, Mamadou Dian Sow, Mamadou Abdoulaye R Diallo, Dieneba Aidara. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2025, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/GUINEE-Chartbook-Report-CAM-2025.pdf.pdf

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DR Congo Synthesis Report 2025 (French)

Pierre Akilimali Zalagile, Francis Kabasubabo Kabengele, Arsène Kabwaya, Jean Shonganye, Faustin Chenge, Marwa Ramadani, Anne-Marie Tumba. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2025, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/DRC-Chartbook-Report-CAM-2025.pdf.pdf

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Chad Synthesis Report 2025 (French)

Ache Danama Kadre, Yode Miangotar, Mahamat Nadjib Abderahim, Oumar Abdel-Aziz Mahamat, Djimet Docteur Pierre, El Hadji Malick Sylla, Amal Tucker Brown. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2025, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Chad-Chartbook-Report-CAM-2025.pdf.pdf

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Cameroon Synthesis Report 2025 (French)

MASSOM Eithel Sylvian, DZOSSA Anaclet Désiré, SOUAIBOU Moussa, MABOU MBONGTOT Prudence, NHANAG Samuel, YOUMBA Jean Christian, ASSOKOM Eliane Epse SOKANE, SIDZE Estelle, NDA‘CHI DEFFO Rodrigue. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2025, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/CAMEROUN-Full-Report_CAM2025_19062025.pdf.pdf

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Burkina Faso Synthesis Report 2025 (French)

Douba Nabie, Issoufou Guira, Viviane Azais, Abdoulaye Maïga, Karim Ouattara, D. Vincent Batiene, Nadine Bamogo/Tamboura, Équipe Country Collaboration Burkina Faso. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2025, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Burkina-Faso_Full-Report_CAM2025_LAST-FINAL.pdf

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South Sudan Synthesis Report 2025

Moses Mila Peter, Josep h K. Mung’atu, Sophia Kagoye. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2025, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/South-Sudan-Synthesis-Report-.pdf

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Sierra Leone Synthesis Report 2025

Ibrahim Kamara, Mohamed Kanu, Ibrahim Koedoyoma, Anne Njeri, Eliud Wekesa, Tom Essay. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2025, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Sierra-Leone-Synthesis-Report-.pdf

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Namibia Synthesis Report 2025

Ndilimeke Shiyuka, Peter Kaberia, Anne Njeri. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2025, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Namibia-Synthesis-Report.pdf

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Liberia Synthesis Report 2025

Prof. Alfred Tarway-Twalla, Emmanuel Adebayor, Francis Saytue, Satta Massalay, Joseph Yokie, Godfrey Adero, Countdown to 2030 Liberia team. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2025, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Liberia-Synthesis-Report.pdf

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Gambia Synthesis Report 2025

Alhagie Modou Sowe, BAH Abdoulie, Thaddeous Egondi. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2025, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/The-Gambia-Synthesis-Report.pdf

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Ethiopia Synthesis Report 2025

Ashenif Tadele, Tamrat Awell, Shegaw Mulu, Fikresilassie Getachew, Tsedeke Mathewos, Dessalegn Y Melesse, Aderajew Mekonnen. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2025, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Ethiopia-Synthesis-Report-.pdf

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Zambia Synthesis Report 2025

Choolwe Jacobs, Ovost Chooye, Chris Mweemba, Andrea Blanchard. 2025 Countdown Annual Meeting, 2025, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Zambia-Synthesis-Report.pdf

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Unwrapping the Global Financing Facility: understanding implications for women’s children’s and adolescent’s health through layered policy analysis

Mary V. Kinney, Doris Kwesiga, Joy E. Lawn, Ulla Walmisley, Meghan Bruce Kumar, Joël Arthur Kiendrébéogo, Phillip Wanduru, Peter Waiswa, Donat Shamba, Jitihada Baraka, Andes Chivangue, Georgina Msemo, Rosie Steege, Asha Sara George & Countdown GFF policy analysis collaboration. Global Health Action, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1080/16549716.2025.2476820

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The 2025 report of the Lancet Countdown to 2030 for women’s, children’s, and adolescents’ health: tracking progress on health and nutrition

Agbessi Amouzou, Aluisio J D Barros, Jennifer Requejo, Cheikh Faye, Nadia Akseer, Eran Bendavid, Cauane Blumenberg, Josephine Borghi, Sama El Baz, Frederik Federspiel, Leonardo Z Ferreira, Elizabeth Hazel, Sam Heft-Neal, Franciele Hellwig, Li Liu, Abdoulaye Maïga, Melinda Munos, Catherine Pitt, Yusra Ribhi Shawar, Jeremy Shiffman, Yvonne Tam, Neff Walker, Pierre Akilimali, Leontine Alkema, Paoli Behanzin, Peter Binyaruka, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Andrea Blanchard, Hannah Blencowe, Ellen Bradley, Nouria Brikci, Beatriz Caicedo-Velásquez, Anthony Costello, Winfred Dotse-Gborgbortsi, Shams El Arifeen, Majid Ezzati, Lynn P Freedman, Michel Guillot, Claudia Hanson, Rebecca Heidkamp, Luis Huicho, Chimaraoke Izugbara, Safia S Jiwani, Caroline Kabiru, Helen Kiarie, Mary Kinney, Fati Kirakoya-Samadoulougou, Joy Lawn, Nyovani Madise, Gouda Roland Mesmer Mady, Bruno Masquelier, Dessalegn Melesse, Kristine Nilsen, Jamie Perin, Usha Ram, Marina Romanello, Ghada E Saad,Sudha Sharma, Estelle M Sidze, Paul Spiegel, Hannah Tappis, Andrew J Tatem, Marleen Temmerman, Cesar G Victora, Francisco Villavicencio, Yohannes Wado, Peter Waiswa, Jon Wakefield, Shelley Walton, Danzhen You, Mickey Chopra, Robert E Black, Ties Boerma. The Lancet, 2025, https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00151-5/fulltext

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A call to action: the second Lancet Commission on adolescent health and wellbeing

Sarah Baird, Shakira Choonara, Peter S Azzopardi, Prerna Banati, Judith Bessant, Olivia Biermann, Anthony Capon, Mariam Claeson, Pamela Y Collins, Nicole De Wet-Billings, Surabhi Dogra, Yanhui Dong, Kate L Francis, Luwam T Gebrekristos, Allison K Groves, Simon I Hay, David Imbago-Jácome, Aaron P Jenkins, Caroline W Kabiru, Elissa C Kennedy, Luo Li, Chunling Lu, Jun Ma, Terry McGovern, Augustina Mensa-Kwao, Sanyu A Mojola, Jason M Nagata, Adesola O Olumide, Olayinka Omigbodun, Molly O’Sullivan, Audrey Prost, Jennifer H Requejo, Yusra R Shawar, Jeremy Shiffman, Avi Silverman, Yi Song, Sharlene Swartz, Rita Tamambang, Henrik Urdal, Joseph L Ward, George C Patton, Susan M Sawyer, Alex Ezeh, Russell M Viner. The Lancet Commissions, 2025, 10.1016/S0140-6736(25)00503-3 External Link

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When Health Data Go Dark: The Importance of the DHS Program and Imagining Its Future

Jessie Jane Khaki, Jil Molenaar, Sulata Karki, Emmanuel Olal, Manuela Straneo, Marie Alice Mosuse, Jovanny Tsuala Fouogue, Bernadette Hensen, Adama Baguiya, Angèle Musau Nkola, Kerry L. M. Wong, Oumar Aly Ba, Amani Kikula, Fassou Mathias Grovogui, Aline Semaan, Anteneh Asefa, Peter M. Macharia, Chido Dziva Chikwari, Mariame Oumar Ouédraogo, Aliki Christou, Emelda A. Okiro, Martin Kavao Mutua, Abioye Amodu, Mwelwa Phiri, Rukundo Athanase, David Lagoro Kitara, Onikepe Owolabi, Andrea B. Pembe, Bosede B. Afolabi & Lenka Beňová . BMC Medicine, 2025,

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Impact of COVID-19 on the utilisation of maternal health services in Bangladesh: A division-level analysis.

Aniqa Tasnim Hossain , Ema Akter, Ridwana Maher Manna, Tasnu Ara, Md. Alamgir Hossain, KM Tanvir, Md Hafizur Rahman, Abu Sayeed, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Bibek Ahamed, M Sabbir Haider, Sabrina Jabeen, Shafiqul Ameen, Mohammad Sohel Shomik, Anisuddin Ahmed, Luis Huicho, Alicia Matijasevich, Abdoulaye Maiga, Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Nadia Akseer, Shams El Arifeen, Agbessi Amouzou. Journal of Global Health, 2024, 10.7189/jogh.14.05040

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Unveiling the dimension of regional disparities: Assessing the disruption of immunisation services by COVID-19 in Bangladesh

Ema Akter, Abu Sayeed, Abu Bakkar Siddique, Bibek Ahamed, Ridwana Maher Manna, Lubna Hossain, K M Tanvir, Md Ariful Islam Sanim, Md Hafizur Rahman, Srizan Chowdhury, Tasnu Ara, Md Alamgir Hossain, M Sabbir Haider, Sabrina Jabeen, Shafiqul Ameen, Mohammad Sohel Shomik, Anisuddin Ahmed, Luis Huicho, Alicia Matijasevich, Abdoulaye Maiga, Ahmed Ehsanur Rahman, Nadia Akseer, Shams El Arifeen, Aniqa Tasnim Hossain, Agbessi Amouzou. Journal of Global Health, 2024, 10.7189/jogh.14.05028

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Learning from Ethiopia’s success in reducing maternal and neonatal mortality through a health systems lens

Dessalegn Y. Melesse, Ashenif Tadele, Shegaw Mulu, Neil Spicer, Tefera Tadelle, Yohannes D Wado, Mulugeta Gajaa, Asrat Arja, Cauane Blumenberg, Tewabe Manaye, Geremew Gonfa, Elsabe du Plessis, Elisabeth Hamilton, Awoke Mihretu, Abdurehman Usamael, Magdelawit Mengesha, Solomon Kassahun Gelaw, Aschale Worku, Mirkuzie Woldie, Biruk Abate, Theodros Getachew, Naod Wondirad, Meseret Zelalem, Getachew Tollera, Ties Boerma. BMJ Global Health, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-2023-011911

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The role of gender inequality and health expenditure on the coverage of demand for family planning satisfied by modern contraceptives: a multilevel analysis of cross-sectional studies in 14 LAC countries

Laísa Rodrigues Moreira, Cauane Blumenberg, Beatriz Elena Caicedo Velasquez, Fernanda Ewerling, Alejandra Balandrán, Luis Paulo Vidaletti, Andrea Ramirez Varela, Franciele Hellwig, Rodolfo Gomez Ponce de Leon, Aluisio J D Barros, Mariangela Freitas Silveira, Fernando C Wehrmeister. The Lancet Regional Health, 2023, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lana.2023.100435

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Building a Future for Women and Children: The 2012 Report

Jennifer Requejo, Jennifer Bryce, Cesar Victora, Aluisio Barros, Peter Berman, Zulfiqar Bhutta, Ties Boerma, Bernadette Daelmans, Adam Deixel, Joy Lawn, Elizabeth Mason, Holly Newby, Ann Starrs. , 2012, https://www.countdown2030.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/2012-complete-no-profiles.pdf

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Quality of reporting and trends of emergency obstetric and neonatal care indicators: an analysis from Tanzania district health information system data between 2016 and 2020

Josephine Shabani, Honorati Masanja, Sophia Kagoye, Jacqueline Minja, Shraddha Bajaria, Yeromin Mlacha, Sia Msuya, Mahundi Masoud, Daudi Simba, Andrea B. Pembe, Ahmad Mohamed Makuwani, Habib Ismail, Maro Chacha, Claud Kumalija, Ties Boerma, Claudia Hanson. BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023, 10.1186/s12884-023-06028-z

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