Overview
The primary audience for these recommendations includes health professionals who are responsible for developing national and local health-care guidelines and protocols (particularly those related to postpartum haemorrhage (PPH) prevention and treatment) and those involved in the provision of care to women and their newborns during labour and childbirth, including midwives, nurses, general medical practitioners and obstetricians, as well as managers of maternal and child health programmes, and relevant staff in ministries of health and training institutions, in all settings.