Godfrey Mbaruku

TL;DR: Between 19% and 28% of women in eight facilities in northeastern Tanzania experienced disrespectful and/or abusive treatment from health providers during childbirth, which requires urgent solutions both to ensure women's right to dignity in health care and to improve effective utilization of facilities for childbirth in order to reduce maternal mortality.

TL;DR: This aim is based on a decade of epide-miological work identifying causes of death, systematically reviewing effective interventions, and modelling the impact of intervention coverage on mortality.

TL;DR: Low-income and middle-income countries should systematically assess and improve the quality of delivery care in health facilities to accelerate reduction of maternal and newborn deaths.

TL;DR: It is suggested that community perceptions of the quality of the local health system influence women's decisions to deliver in a clinic and improving quality of care at first-level clinics and communicating this to communities may assist efforts to increase facility delivery in sub-Saharan Africa.

TL;DR: Misoprostol is a low cost, easy to use technology that can control PPH even without a medically trained attendant.