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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 ... see more »
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.
