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PPH, bleeding, death
BLEEDING, POSTPARTUM HAEMORRHAGE
The WOMAN Trials have a simple aim: to ensure a safe childbirth for all women everywhere. These global trials are producing the evidence needed to stop women dying in childbirth. Heavy bleeding after childbirth, called a postpartum haemorrhage or PPH, is the main cause of maternal death, killing tens of thousands of mothers every year. The WOMAN Trials are looking at the effect of the drug tranexamic acid on bleeding and the best ways to give it. For more information, please see 