Postpartum haemorrhage: Niger halves blood-loss deaths at clinics- PublishedResearchers working with Niger's health ministry say they have managed to more than halve the number of women who bleed to death after giving birth in health facilities.Over the research period in Niger, an estimated 1,417 fewer women died from bleeding after childbirth - known as postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) - than otherwise would have.Working with doctors and nurses across the country, the NGO Health and Development Initiative (HDI) introduced a combination of treatments.Expectant mothers are also handed a dose of misoprostol when they visit a clinic towards the end of the pregnancy, which they are asked to bring back for the birth - but it can be taken at home."Reducing deaths caused by bleeding after women give birth, by more than half across an entire country within one or two years has to my knowledge never been done before," PPH expert Prof André Lalonde said."