🩸 Sunday marks the first-ever #WorldPPHDay.

A new commentary reflects on progress since the launch of the PPH Roadmap, and why urgent, coordinated action is needed to end preventable deaths from PPH—still a leading cause of maternal mortality.

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Opinion | ‘I Never Want to See a Case of Polio, but I’m Very Fearful I Will’

Powerful opinion piece in today’s NYT from Perri Klass (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...

#PedsID #IDSky #PedsSky

Michael Marmot: “There’s enough in the world to make one despair. But we know what must be done—we just have to do it” The Marmot review’s author spoke to the WIRED Health conference about “proportionate universalism,” racism, and a million UK children living in destitution. Mun-Keat Looi reports ### Biography…

Michael Marmot: “There’s enough in the world to make one despair. But we know what must be done—we just have to do it” www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Unitaid supports uptake of objective blood loss measurement devices to advance lifesaving care for postpartum hemorrhage in resource-limited settings - Unitaid Jhpiego will receive an additional US$2.3 million in funding to integrate the calibrated drape into existing programs in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea and India, and support catalytic procu...

Postpartum hemorrhage is the leading cause of maternal death worldwide. Unitaid is working with @jhpiego.org to scale up use of calibrated drapes – simple tools that allow health workers to detect dangerous bleeding quickly and accurately.

Learn more: unitaid.org/news-blog/un...

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Rural Patients Face Tough Choices When Their Hospitals Stop Delivering Babies - KFF Health News More than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021, including a South Dakota hospital that serves small towns, farming communities, and a Native American reservation. Patients the...

Rural Patients Face Tough Choices When Their Hospitals Stop Delivering Babies kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Same. This is feeling wildly out of pocket

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans.

These are their stories 🧵

The Midwifery Accelerator: expanding health care for women and newborns Investing in midwives is a cost-effective and sustainable strategy to improve maternal and newborn health and well-being and reduce mortality. There is ample evidence to show that care provided by mid...

Learn more about the Midwifery Accelerator, a global initiative led by UNFPA, @who.int , @unicef.org , the @internationalmidwives.org, Jhpiego, and partners to ensure midwives are equipped and supported to deliver high-quality, respectful care: www.unfpa.org/publications...

Midwives are essential to health system resilience.

By achieving universal coverage of midwife-delivered care by 2035, we could avert 67% of maternal deaths, 64% of newborn deaths, and 65% of stillbirths—saving 4.3 million lives every year. #IDM2025

Clinical trial to evaluate broader use of lifesaving, heat-stable medicine for postpartum hemorrhage moves forward - Unitaid

With maternal mortality declining just 2.5% per year since 2016, we must act faster. The REACH trial, led by Unitaid and partners, could help deliver a transformative medicine to more women, no matter where they give birth. Every life counts.

Learn more: unitaid.org/news-blog/cl...

Elimination of deaths from postpartum haemorrhage Preventing, detecting and treating the leading cause of maternal mortality

Today, we're proud to launch a new platform spotlighting the global community's collective work to end preventable maternal deaths due to #PostpartumHaemorrhage (#PPH).

Check it out: www.who.int/initiatives/...

#ReproSky #obgynsky

These are real, concrete wins and a testament to the dedication and hard work of thousands of public health professionals, health workers, and community advocates. This work is difficult and often goes unrecognized. But it remains as critical as ever.

For the first time, no country has a maternal mortality ratio (MMR) of over 1000 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births.

No region has a collective MMR over 500.

Aid cuts threaten fragile progress in ending maternal deaths, UN agencies warn Women today are more likely than ever to survive pregnancy and childbirth according to a major new report released today, but United Nations (UN) agencies highlight the threat of major backsliding as ...

Today is International Day for Maternal Health and Rights 🤰🏾🤱🏻 (thread)

Earlier this week, WHO and partners released the latest estimates on trends in maternal mortality (bit.ly/42kB7UK).

We have made tremendous strides.

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Según la Dra Suzanne Serruya, esté año, por primera vez, la OMS y la OPS han decidido que nuestro enfoque en salud maternal y neonatal no solamente dirigiría las actividades del #DíaMundialDeSalud sino que también las de todo el año.

Porque las madres y los neonatos SÍ importan. 💪🤰🏽🤱👶🏿

This #WorldHealthDay, I'm reminded just how much progress we've made in improving maternal survival

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and just how much work we still have to do to ensure that all moms can thrive.

Latest trends data are here --> cdn.who.int/media/docs/d...

Onwards.

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Global Fund Secures First Eighth Replenishment Pledge – A Historic Private Sector Commitment from Children’s Investment Fund Foundation The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (the Global Fund) today announced the first pledge to its Eighth Replenishment Campaign – and it comes from the private sector. The Children’s I...

"The Children’s Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF) has made a groundbreaking US$150 million commitment, a five-fold increase from its previous contribution."

Trans and gender-diverse patients should be able to access inclusive, thoughtful, and respectful care without restrictions, burdens, or stigma. ACOG continues to be committed to uplifting and supporting trans and gender-diverse patients, who are a vital part of communities everywhere.

The US axing funding for contraception will cause a 12% increase in global maternal mortality. That's another 34,000 women who will die due to pregnancy and childbirth.

It will cause another 17.1 million unintended pregnancies, and 5.2 million unsafe abortions www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...

New review finds vaccines could drastically reduce global hearing loss in children Millions of children could be protected from life-altering hearing loss through better vaccine access.

Did you know that many cases of childhood hearing loss are preventable?

A recent study showed that vaccines could prevent up to 40% of childhood hearing loss caused by infections like #measles, #meningitis and #rubella.

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Some very bad news:

New modelling predicts up to 10 million additional HIV infections following aid cuts www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...