Sexual and reproductive health

It brings information about sexual and reproductive health, including the topics adolescence, ageing, cancers, family planning, infertility, health systems, unsafe abortion and sexually transmitted infections. It also presents estimates, publications, a search service and the regional offices.

Beyond the numbers: reviewing maternal deaths and complications to make pregnancy safer

It describes underlying principles for implementation and key practical issues which are generally applicable to all approaches presented, focus on learning from maternal deaths in different settings, examines the possibility of reviewing severe maternal morbidity and “near misses ” rather than maternal deaths, and describes clinical audit, which focuses on examining the content and quality of care. Document in pdf format; Acrobat Reader required.