Monitoring childbirth in a new era for maternal health
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WHO and HRP launch the Labour Care Guide to improve every woman’s experience of childbirth, and to help ensure the health and well-being of women and their babies.
The philosophy of labour and delivery care, and the recommended World Health Organization (WHO) approach, have developed significantly in the last decades.
The recognition that every birth is unique is now a cornerstone of the 2018 WHO recommendations on intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience.
Over one third of maternal deaths, half of stillbirths and a quarter of neonatal deaths result from complications during labour and childbirth. The majority of these deaths occur in low-resource settings and are preventable through timely interventions. Knowing when to wait - and when to take life-saving action - is critical.
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Monitoring childbirth in a new era for maternal health
WHO and HRP launch the Labour Care Guide to improve every woman’s experience of childbirth, and to help ensure the health and well-being of women and their babies.
The philosophy of labour and delivery care, and the recommended World Health Organization (WHO) approach, have developed significantly in the last decades.
The recognition that every birth is unique is now a cornerstone of the 2018 WHO recommendations on intrapartum care for a positive childbirth experience.
Over one third of maternal deaths, half of stillbirths and a quarter of neonatal deaths result from complications during labour and childbirth. The majority of these deaths occur in low-resource settings and are preventable through timely interventions. Knowing when to wait – and when to take life-saving action – is critical.
FIGO Africa Regional Kigali Congress
FIGO Africa Regional Kigali Congress 13 – 15 December 2020
Kigali, Rwanda | Virtual event
WHO and the UN Special Programme HRP are attending the FIGO Africa Regional Kigali Congress 2020, 13-15
th December, where Dr Tedros will deliver a keynote address.
This virtual event is hosted by the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) in partnership with the African Federation of Obstetricians and Gynecologists and the Rwanda Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
The Congress will bring together more than 1000 health professionals including obstetricians and gynaecologists, midwives, nurses, advocates, decision makers, and other specialists in the field of women’s health and policy.
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Study goal to reduce rates of C-section
Reducing the rate of caesarean section and improving the quality of labour and childbirth management is the goal of a new two-year project led by Burnet Institute Principal Research Fellow, Associate Professor Joshua Vogel.
Work will focus on the development of an implementation strategy to assess the effectiveness of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) recently updated Labour Care Guide in a pilot trial in four maternity hospitals in India.
The WHO Labour Care Guide is a next generation partograph – a clinical tool used by maternity care providers to monitor and manage labour – based on WHO’s latest intrapartum care recommendations.