Preventing deaths from childbirth
Over 1,000 women die each year in Kenya due to bleeding after childbirth, over 300 of these women would live if Tranexamic acid was used within 3 hours from when bleeding starts. I
Let’s talk about childbirth
But while more midwifery research is required, there are small things can be done to make childbirth easier for women. Childbirth need not be undignified.
Kenyan women need more C-sections
The people failed most by the lack of C-sections are babies. In Kenya about 13,600 babies die every year as a result of birth trauma and birth asphyxia - lives that would be saved