This brief focuses on the following key points: HIV-positive women can transmit HIV to their infants during pregnancy, childbirth, or while breastfeeding. Providing HIV prevention, care and treatment within existing maternal and child health services dramatically improves their uptake, improving maternal health and reducing mother-to-child transmission of HIV.  

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This brief discusses the following points: Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is the leading cause of maternal mortality in low-resource settings. In countries with high maternal mortality and limited resources, introducing safe, low-cost, evidence-based practices that prevent PPH can save women’s lives.  

This brief discusses the following key points: The Home Based Life Saving Skills approach helps communities provide safe, acceptable, and feasible emergency care during home births. Key to the approach is strengthening links between home, community, and referral facilities through community mobilization. Training of home birth teams uses an assessment of methods, including picture cards and role plays, to maximize learning for participants with varying ability to read.

This brief focuses on the following points:

This brief discusses the following points:

This brief focuses on the following points: