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Better Births Initiative

A global initiative to promote humane and evidence-based childbirth care. The Better Births Initiative is a project of the Effective Health Care Alliance Programme (EHCAP), a DfID funded work programme co-ordinated from the International Health Division, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. Effective basic care at delivery improves survival of mothers and their infants. Reliable research evidence provides midwives and doctors with knowledge to improve services, but the challenge is converting this to action. Descriptive studies in several countries have shown that obstetric care quality could be dramatically improved if health workers focus changing practice around a handful of routine procedures. The Better Births Initiative aims to improve care though better use of available evidence. It focuses on a few procedures that are important to health and women's experience of labour, and where change can happen with existing resources.

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http://www.liv.ac.uk/lstm/bbimainpage.html 

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