{"id":198787,"date":"2025-05-25T07:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T05:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-scaling-heat-stable-uterotonics-to-prevent-maternal-deaths-in-nigeria\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T07:09:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T05:09:30","slug":"nigeria-scaling-heat-stable-uterotonics-to-prevent-maternal-deaths-in-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-scaling-heat-stable-uterotonics-to-prevent-maternal-deaths-in-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Scaling Heat-Stable Uterotonics to Prevent Maternal Deaths in Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Every day, countless mothers around the world lose their lives to postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), a devastating reality that remains a widespread and persistent challenge in Nigeria. The country accounts for <a href=\"https:\/\/healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/2023\/nigeria-maternal-newborn-health-country-profile\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">28.5% of global maternal deaths<\/a>, with PPH being a major contributor, causing <a href=\"https:\/\/scidar.org\/smiles-for-mothers-2\/#:~:text=Nigeria%20has%20the%20highest%20burden%20of%20maternal%20deaths,Nigeria%20%2822%25%29%20is%20attributable%20to%20postpartum%20haemorrhage%20%28PPH%29.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">22% of these tragic losses.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZQtSERDBpbI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">webinar<\/a> hosted by <a href=\"https:\/\/scidar.org\/smiles-for-mothers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Smiles for Mothers<\/a> in collaboration with Nigeria&#8217;s Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ferring.com\/heat-stable-carbetocin-has-been-added-to-the-who-essential-medicines-list-for-the-prevention-of-excessive-bleeding-after-childbirth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ferring Pharmaceuticals<\/a>, brought leading experts together to discuss the &#8220;<strong><em>Best&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505230489.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day, countless mothers around the world lose their lives to postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), a devastating reality that remains a widespread and persistent challenge in Nigeria. The country accounts for 28.5% of global maternal deaths, with PPH being a major contributor, causing 22% of these tragic losses. A webinar hosted by Smiles for Mothers in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":198788,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,8601,51442,10165,257,4687,393,9849,35969,254,51443],"class_list":["post-198787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deaths","tag-heatstable","tag-maternal","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-prevent","tag-scaling","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uterotonics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}