FIGO’s Combatting Postpartum Haemorrhage (PPH) Project provides technical support to selected regional and national societies and professional maternal health leaders to help accelerate PPH control efforts for improved PPH diagnosis and management through the use of PPH Emergency Care Using a Bundle Approach (PPH EmC) .  

In August 2022, Unitaid announced a US$45 million investment to increase access to lifesaving products that prevent and treat severe bleeding after childbirth.

Women with urinary incontinence in the course of pregnancy appear to be at higher risk of signs and symptoms of postpartum urinary incontinence than women who do not experience urinary incontinence during pregnancy. Pelvic Floor Muscle Training (PFMT) is a supervised treatment that can be effective in decreasing the symptoms of urinary stress incontinence.

In the Iranian health services, midwives are responsible for the preparation of childbirth classes during antenatal, postpartum and puerperium periods.

This workshop aims to identify specific barriers to the implementation of current World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on vaccination programmes for women, including the WHO 2020 Global Strategy for the Elimination of Cervical Cancer.  

Good practice recommendations to manage preterm birth

Each of the nine papers in the special section provides a recommendation based on a variety of sources, which include guidelines from the World Health Organization, governmental health care agencies, professional societies and global collaborative networks, as well as data from randomised clinical trials in peer-reviewed journals with high impact factors and robust analysis.

Today marks World Patient Safety Day, a day to enhance global understanding of patient safety, increase public engagement in the safety of health care and promote global actions to enhance patient safety and reduce patient harm. This year, the World Health Organization (WHO) has put a particular focus on safe maternal and newborn care, urging all stakeholders to ‘Act now for safe and respectful childbirth!’

It is normal for a woman to have bleeding after the birth of her baby. However, when a woman has excessive bleeding after childbirth, this is known as postpartum haemorrhage (PPH). PPH is an obstetric emergency for which immediate interventions are needed to stop bleeding and save the mother. PPH is the leading cause of maternal mortality in low-income countries.

Although the absolute risk for severe COVID-19 in pregnancy remains low, it is now established that pregnant women are at increased risk of severe COVID-19-associated illness compared with non-pregnant women. Such illness may require hospitalisation, admission to intensive care, mechanical ventilation and even cause death. Thus, the prevention of critical COVID-19 infection is of paramount importance for both the mother and her foetus.