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Africa: Commonly Used Drug May Be Key to Stopping Thousands of Mothers Dying
allAfrica, 10 November 2017
Roughly every six minutes, a woman somewhere in the world bleeds to death in child birth. But a new medical trial shows that there is a way of combating the problem. Read more »
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Africa: Toyin Saraki Says Why Drug Trial for Women is Close to Her Heart
allAfrica, 10 November 2017
Toyin Saraki was speaking at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine to raise awareness of the issue of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), which kills around 100,000 women… Read more »
Simple Drug May Save Thousands of Bleeding Mothers
Roughly every six minutes, a woman somewhere in the world bleeds to death in child birth. But a new medical trial shows that there is a way of combating this global problem which is prevalent in Nigeria and Ethiopia.
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10 November 2017
Can Women Dying After Childbirth Be Prevented?
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- The WOMAN Trial
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Every year 14 million mothers develop severe bleeding after childbirth or postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) as it is also known, and about 2% of them will die, with an average of 2-4 hours from the start of bleeding to death. The WOMAN trial aims to provide the research based information, as to whether an old drug, tranexamic acid (TXA), can improve the outcomes for women who develop this life-threatening condition, and ultimately save lives. TXA is a drug developed in the 1950's, which is commonly
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Survivor of postpartum haemorrhage in Nigeria holds her child. The WOMAN trial has found that a simple drug called tranexamic acid, a blood clot stabiliser first discovered in Japan in the 1950s, could cut deaths from bleeding by a third if given to women within three hours.
