About Us
We are a global consortium of PPH champions working to improve PPH control in low- and middle-income countries to save more mothers’ lives.
Who we are
This website has been developed by FIGO and ICM in partnership with the Division of Global Health Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard. Our growing global partnership works to systematize and standardize the treatment of PPH around the world. We welcome anyone and everyone to join as either individuals as organizations and contribute what they can to this mission.
We believe that far more data, case studies, and research is needed to rapidly improve the standardization and simplification of PPH care. We hope that “Save mothers, Stop PPH!” can become a widespread, inclusive and effective global movement in coming years.
Our mission
This website is dedicated to informing country champions and partners how maternal deaths due to postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) can be drastically reduced. Through the website you can also become a partner, either to get more information for improving PPH control in your country, or to contribute lessons learned to our resources section. Your contributions can strengthen the evidence in this crucial area of maternal and newborn survival.
The website has been developed by FIGO in partnership with the Division of Global Health Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard. Our growing global partnership works to systematize and standardize the treatment of PPH around the world. We welcome anyone and everyone to join as either individuals as organizations and contribute what they can to this mission.
We believe that far more data, case studies, and research is needed to rapidly improve the standardization and simplification of PPH care. We hope that “Save mothers, Stop PPH!” can become a widespread, inclusive and effective global movement in coming years.
Our history
The increase in women giving birth in healthcare facilities heralded a welcome fall in many causes of maternal death. Levels of PPH remained high overall, but FIGO began hearing anecdotal evidence of improved PPH outcomes in a few low-income countries. Intrigued, FIGO set up a working group to understand whether some countries were indeed producing better outcomes and, if they were, what they were doing differently. It could then share learning with other countries. PPH was also highlighted with the release of the updated WHO PPH recommendations 2017/2018, which provided new evidence-based PPH best practice.
At the same time, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation began showing increased interest in PPH. This opened up new grants for operational research and for developing and testing new methods of emergency care for women with PPH.
Through our supported solutions, SaveMothers.org and our partners are making a serious impact in the lives of mothers and children around the world.
This move came in parallel with increased interest in PPH by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This raised profile has provided grants for operational research, to develop tools for improved PPH emergency care, and to test new tools such as tranexamic acid (TXA).
