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Date Time 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...

Date Time 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 car...