Evaluation findings from a particular setting need to be generalized into policy implications if they are to find widespread use. Skilled attendance at delivery is widely regarded as one of the most important intervention strategies for safe motherhood in low-resource settings, particularly in Africa, but implementations of such strategies are often not rigorously evaluated or interpreted into ...

BACKGROUND Meeting the health needs of Sudanese women, especially those living in village areas, is imperative and cannot be accomplished without understanding the cultural perceptions and health behaviors related to safe motherhood. Nevertheless, there is little literature exploring these perspectives through qualitative study, as most of the studies performed in Sudan applied quantitative met...

OBJECTIVES To determine the efficacy and the safety of the single dose MgSo4 ('VIMS') regimen in treating eclamptic seizures and their effect on the maternal and foetal outcomes. METHODS A prospective, observational study was conducted in the period from 2003 to 2007. 513 eclamptic women who were admitted to the Dept of OBG, VIMS, Bellary, received single doses of 4g diluted 50% Mgso4 intrave...

The World Health Organization (WHO) (2007) estimated that in 2005 nearly 536 000 women died from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth; this translates to a woman dying every minute in the developing world, where 99% of all maternal deaths occur. Recent studies (Khan et al, 2006; WHO, 2007) have found that postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) accounted for 25–34% of these deaths, predominant...

Despite high infant and maternal mortality rates, many Mozambican women with access to prenatal services delay prenatal clinic consultations, limiting opportunity for prevention and treatment of preventable pregnancy complications. Ethnographic research, interviews with health providers and longitudinal pregnancy case studies with 83 women were conducted in Central Mozambique to examine pregnan...