ICM Regional Conference of the Americas

At the International Confederation of Midwives’ 5th Regional Conference of the Americas held in Suriname, Gynuity staff present on the use of misoprostol for postabortion care, and on a panel on postpartum hemorrhage co-organized with FIGO as follows:

Misoprostol for the Management of Postpartum Haemorrhage: New Evidence and the Way Forward

• Introduction on misoprostol for the management of postpartum hemorrhage – Dr. Hamid Rushwan, FIGO
• Misoprostol vs oxytocin in Uniject for PPH prophylaxis at the community level: Research from Senegal - Jill Durocher, Gynuity Health Projects
• New approaches utilizing misoprostol for management of postpartum hemorrhage at the community level, and Misoprostol for primary versus secondary prevention of postpartum haemorrhage in India: A cluster-randomized non-inferiority community trial - Holly Anger, Gynuity Health Projects

Gynuity staff also delivered a presentation on the use of misoprostol for task-shifting postabortion care entitled: “Task-sharing and decentralizing post-abortion care services: Use of misoprostol for treatment of incomplete abortion by non-physician providers.”