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A Woman Cannot Die from a Pregnancy She Does Not Have
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2011
The fifth Millennium Development Goal has brought critical attention to the unacceptably high burden of maternal mortality and the need to improve antenatal health care. However, many of the approaches to reducing maternal mortality (e.g., increasing the number of deliveries at health facilities with skilled attendants or improving access to emergency obstetric care) are complex [...]
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RISBibTexAPAHealth education for microcredit clients in Peru: a randomized controlled trial
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Background: Poverty, lack of female empowerment, and lack of education are major risk factors for childhood illness worldwide. Microcredit programs, by offering small loans to poor individuals, attempt to address the first two of these risk factors, poverty and gender disparity. They provide clients, usually women, with a means to invest in their [...]
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RISBibTexAPANiger: Too Little, Too Late
Potts M, Gidi V, Campbell M, Zureick S
International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2011
Niger—with the world's fastest growing population, its highest total fertility rate (TFR), a small and diminishing amount of arable land, low annual rainfall, a high level of malnutrition, extremely low levels of education, gross gen- der inequities and an uncertain future in the face of climate change—is the most extreme example of a catastrophe that [...]
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RISBibTexAPABook Review of “Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918–1963”
Population Development Review, 2011
A review of "Sex Before the Sexual Revolution: Intimate Life in England 1918–1963" by Simon Szreter and Kate Fisher.
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As a young obstetrician in London in the 1960s, who had just moved into a house built in the 1920s, I began talking to my two neighbors, literally over the garden fence. [...]
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RISBibTexAPAPrevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage in Northern Nigeria
Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) makes a significant contribution to the number of maternal deaths in Nigeria. This brief summarizes research demonstrating misoprostol is a safe and effective means to control PPH at home births in five communities in Northern Nigeria.
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RISBibTexAPAVSIMisoprostol Distribution at Antenatal Care in Tanzania
Final results shared at the dissemination meeting on 3 March 2011 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This brief highlights results from the Ifakara Health Institute and VSI project to protect women from postpartum hemorrhage at home births in four districts of Tanzania.
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RISBibTexAPAVSIKenya PPH Job Aid Poster
Information, education and communication (IEC) campaign sample from a postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) operations research project in Kenya.
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RISBibTexAPAVSIExpanding Access to Postabortion Care Services in Mozambique
VSI, AMOG and the Bixby Center at UC Berkeley conducted operations research addressing unsafe abortion with misoprostol in Mozambique. This research brief demonstrates that misoprostol is a promising alternative to surgical methods of treating incomplete abortion, and that expanding the level of health facility and provider trained on misoprostol can increase women’s access to these essential services.
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RISBibTexAPAVSICommunity-based Prevention of PPH with Misoprostol in Mozambique
This brief summarizes the final results a collaborative community-based pilot project of VSI, AMOG, the Bixby Center at UC Berkeley, and PSI. Results show that antenatal care visits and additional community-based strategies, such as TBAs, are key opportunities to reach women with misoprostol and educate them on its use for prevention of PPH.
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A new hope for women: medical abortion in a low-resource setting in Ethiopia
Prata N, Gessessew A, Campbell M, Potts M
Journal of Family Planning and Reproductive Health Care, 2011
Between February 2002 and January 2004 in the Adigrat Zonal Hospital, covering one-fifth of the large Tigray region of North West Ethiopia, there were 907 admissions with a diagnosis of abortion. Among these, 521 were induced by traditional, unsafe methods. Unsafe abortion was the leading cause of admission, accounting for 12.6% of all bed occupancy throughout this general hospital and 60.6% of the gynecological admissions. About 57% of patients admitted with unsafe abortions had serious complications, including tubo-ovarian abscess, vaginal laceration, uterine perforation, generalised peritonitis and renal failure. Three women died from complications of unsafe abortion. Five years later in the same hospital, between July 2009 and September 2010 unsafe abortion cases had declined, becoming the tenth cause of hospital admission. There were no deaths and no severe complications.
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