POPPHI

The World Health Organization (WHO) held a Technical Consultation in Geneva to discuss the various issues related to the prevention of PPH and to develop recommendations. This document highlights key recommendations from the report

This is a transcript of a clinical tutorial on the active management of the third stage of labour (AMTSL). AMTSL is a combination of actions to speed the delivery of the placenta and prevent postpartum haemorrhage. Through these simple actions, trained providers can prevent postpartum haemorrhage and play a vital role in saving women’s lives. The objective of this film is to review the key steps of the active management of the third stage of labour and demonstrate them in the context of normal labour and delivery using the skills checklist.

Outline of Pathfinder International's Clinical and Community Action Model, which is effective precisely because it addresses the full spectrum of clinical and social causes of PPH morbidity and mortality in low-resource settings.

This is a short fact sheet about postpartum hemorrhaging (PPH).

Fact sheet on The Prevention of Postpartum Hemorrhage Initiative (POPPHI), a three-year project awarded to a partnership of PATH, RTI International, and EngenderHealth in July 2004. PATH provides the technical leadership for this project. The International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) and the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) are also important collaborators.

This statement explains how FIGO and ICM have agreed that active management of the third stage of labour is proven to reduce the incidence of post-partum haemorrhage, the quantity of blood loss, and the use of blood transfusion.

Training facilitators or participants use the following checklist to gauge progress while learning to perform AMTSL.

Proper childcare techniques including images and administration of uterotonic immediately after birth.

Poster diagramming the procedure for care during the third stage of labor.

This fact sheet for policy makers and program managers provides guidance on the active management of the third state of labor for prevention of postpartum hemorrhage.