Background: The Perinatal Problem Identification Programme (PPIP) is used to rule out the avoidable and nonavoidable causes of negative maternal perinatal outcomes through file audits. serves as a tool for midwives obstetricians pinpoint missed opportunities that could prevent outcomes. Aim: study aimed describe explore in Bojanala District lens midwife. Setting: This was conducted two selected...

BACKGROUND Little information exists on timing and cause of death for small-for-gestational-age (SGA) babies in low-and-middle-income-countries (LMICs), despite evidence from high-income countries suggesting critical periods for SGA babies. This study explored the timing and cause of stillbirth and early neonatal mortality (END, <7 days) by small-for-gestational age in three provinces in South ...

BACKGROUND Reviews of perinatal deaths are mostly facility based. Given the number of women who, globally, deliver outside of facilities, this data may be biased against total population data. We aimed to analyse population based perinatal mortality data from a LMIC setting (Mpumalanga, South Africa) to determine the causes of perinatal death and the rate of maternal complications in the settin...

AIM To describe the effect of HIV infection on maternal and perinatal disease in south west Tshwane. SETTING Southwest Tshwane has a low to low-middle income urban population and is served by Pretoria West and Laudium Midwife-Obstetric Units (MOUs) and Kalafong Hospital and fourteen primary care clinics which refer to those institutions. These are all public health institutions. METHODS Onl...

Problem Suboptimal care contributes to perinatal mortality rates. Quality-of-care audit can be used to identify and change suboptimal care, but it is not known if such audits have reduced perinatal mortality in South Africa. Approach We investigated perinatal mortality trends in health facilities that had completed at least five years of quality-of-care audit. In a subset of facilities that beg...