Annual Report 2015-2016 > Pregnancy & Childbirth

We helped to identify evidence-based practices for prenatal, birth and postpartum care, as well as unsafe or unnecessary practices, and published them in The Lancet.

• We developed new guidelines to help health care workers in low-resource settings identify when a woman is going into shock due to blood loss after giving birth.


• We began testing the best ways to help women and their families recover physically and emotionally after surgery to repair obstetric fistula.


• Our research showed that US health care providers are missing opportunities to offer pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) drugs to pregnant women facing increased risk of HIV.

To learn more about our programs and partners working in pregnancy and childbirth, see the Safe Motherhood Program and Pronto International.

To help us continue saving the lives of mothers worldwide, make a gift to the Bixby Center.

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