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Provision of injectable contraceptives in Ethiopia through community-based reproductive health agents

Prata N, Gessessew A, Cartwright A, Fraser A

Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 2011

This collaborative project demonstrates that receiving injectable contraceptives from community-based reproductive health agents proved as safe and acceptable to Ethiopian women as receiving them in health posts from health extension workers. These findings support the development, introduction and scale-up of programs to train community-based health workers to safely administer injectable contraceptives.

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Where There Are (Few) Skilled Birth Attendants

Prata N, Passano P, Rowen T, Bell S, Walsh J, Potts M

Journal of Health, Population, and Nutrition, 2011

Recent efforts to reduce maternal mortality in developing countries have focused primarily on two long-term aims: training and deploying skilled birth attendants and upgrading emergency obstetric care facilities. Given the future population-level benefits, strengthening of health systems makes excellent strategic sense but it does not address the immediate safe-delivery needs of the estimated 45 million [...]

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Inability to predict postpartum hemorrhage: insights from Egyptian intervention data

Prata N, Hamza S, Bell S, Karasek D, Vahidnia F, Holston M

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2011

Knowledge on how well we can predict primary postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) can help policy makers and health providers design current delivery protocols and PPH case management. This article, published in BMC Pregnancy & Childbirth, demonstrates that no single factor can reliably predict the risk of hemorrhage after delivery and therefore supports the development of research, policy work and scale-up of prevention efforts for PPH.

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Evaluation of a traditional birth attendant training programme in Bangladesh

Rowen T, Prata N, Passano P

Midwifery, 2011

Background and context: the 1997 Safe Motherhood Initiative effectively eliminated support for training traditional birth attendants (TBAs) in safe childbirth. Despite this, TBAs are still active in many countries such as Bangladesh, where 88% of deliveries occur at home. Renewed interest in community-based approaches and the urgent need to improve birth care has necessitated a [...]

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The Role of Misoprostol in Scaling Up Postabortion Care

Sahin-Hodoglugil N

International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, 2011

This letter, published in International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health, presents the benefits of misoprostol for use in treating incomplete abortion. Its relative ease of use for this indication and cost-effectiveness, render misoprostol a key tool for scaling up access to postabortion care services in remote areas where deaths from unsafe abortion are common.

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Reaching Women Where They Are: 2009/2010 VSI Biennial Report

2011

Read about VSI's accomplishments and get to know a few project beneficiaries featured in this biennial report from 2009 and 2010. Learn more on how VSI is "reaching women where they are" with affordable, effective solutions to improve women's health.

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Misoprostol Use in Postabortion Care: A Service Delivery Toolkit

2011

This toolkit is designed to help district or national-level clinicians, facility managers or program managers initiate the use of misoprostol as a medical treatment for incomplete abortion or integrate misoprostol into existing postabortion care services.

Click here to download the Toolkit in French. / La version française se trouve ici.

Click here to download the Toolkit in Portuguese. / Descarregar a versão em português aqui.

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Comprehensive Abortion Care Pilot Project in Tigray, Ethiopia

2011

VSI, the Tigray Regional Health Bureau and the Bixby Center at UC Berkeley conducted a pilot program assessing the feasibility of providing comprehensive abortion care at all levels of the health care system in Tigray, Ethiopia, including by Health Extension Workers.

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Tanzania PPH Misoprostol Poster

2011

Information, education and communication (IEC) campaign sample from a postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) operations research project in Tanzania using the local Swahili language.

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Introduction of Misoprostol for Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage in Two Kenyan Districts

2011

This brief summarizes the findings of the VSI/KOGS misoprostol for PPH pilot program in Kenya, including that the direct distribution of misoprostol to women through antenatal care visits, as well as through Community Midwives at delivery, increased the number of women who receive protection from postpartum hemorrhage.

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