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Community-based Prevention of PPH with Misoprostol in Mozambique

Tags: mozambique, pph, misoprostol, TBAs, antenatal-care

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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Expanding Access to Postabortion Care Services in Mozambique

Tags: misoprostol, pac, mozambique, midwife, postabortion-care

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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Saving Women's Lives: Mozambique

Tags: mozambique, Misoprostol,

In Mozambique women have a 1 in 37 lifetime risk of dying from maternal causes; an estimated 1,500 mothers die each year due to excessive bleeding after childbirth, or postpartum hemorrhage (PPH), and half (51%) deliver at home. Complications of abortion also contribute significantly to the high rate of maternal death.

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