Maternal Mortality Articles & Analysis
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However, complications such as severe anaemia, placental abruption, or postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) can require blood transfusions: severe anaemia can compromise the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood, placental abruption can lead to significant blood loss and PPH, one of the leading causes of maternal mortality globally, involves excessive bleeding after ...
Abstract Background: Preeclampsia is a major pregnancy complication that results in significant maternal and infant mortality, most of which occurs in low and middle-income countries. The accurate and timely diagnosis of preeclampsia is critical in management of affected pregnancies to reduce maternal and fetal/neonatal morbidity and ...
It is the leading cause (94%) of maternal deaths worldwide. Approximately 20 in 100,000 women die from maternal hemorrhage yearly in North America, and the mortality rate is even higher in developing ...
The majority of Hemafuse use cases to date have been for ruptured ectopic pregnancies. How do you think about the maternal health impact that the Hemafuse device has on end patients? Carolyn: The main factor in first-trimester maternal deaths is ruptured ectopic pregnancies, particularly in countries with higher STD rates or less-adequate prenatal care. Ectopic ...
Infectious diseases are a serious threat in Gynecology Clinics. They can increase maternal mortality, cause complications in childbirth, or severely affect the lives of mothers and children through physical or mental damage caused by almost invisible organisms. ...
Thus, high-quality and safe care in the second stage of labor is essential to prevent stillbirth and newborn complications arising from asphyxia, as well as maternal mortality and morbidity from complications such as vesicovaginal fistula, anal sphincter injury, sepsis, hemorrhage, and worsening of hypertensive disease.5 During the second stage of labor, birth ...
Here is Chris explaining the amazing drop in child mortality since 2000 and how the MDGs helped. Here he is on maternal mortality… …and HIV here. ...
Longevity is a relatively recent phenomenon in Nepal; over the past few decades the priority in Nepal has been reducing infant and maternal mortality. With an increasingly ageing population and changing patterns of migration, this brings with it challenges to Nepali society in terms of meeting the needs of an ageing population and creating a policy environment ...
(We external ) Advocacy and communication to address HIV/AIDS, to encourage a society that is more sensitive to and respectful of the rights of those living with HIV/AIDS (We and I external ) The framework also recognises the impact of the responses on other Millennium Development Goals and systems including the reduction of poverty and hunger, the empowerment of women, the reduction of ...