MEDIA ADVISORY: Launch of new WHO and Lancet Series on maternal health - Friday 12 June, 11h CEST

No images? Click here Tuesday, 9 June 2026  MEDIA ADVISORY  The Lancet and WHO unveil new blueprint to prevent one of childbirth's deadliest complications This Friday 12 June 2026 at 11h CEST, the Lancet and WHO lead researchers will publish a landmark new Lancet Series, challenging decades of conventional maternity care and redefine how postpartum haemorrhage (PPH), the world's leading direct cause of maternal death, is detected, treated and prevented. The papers highlight how many women are at risk globally and what this is costing our economies. Bringing together the latest global evidence, the Series argues that too many women are still dying from a condition that can often be prevented or successfully treated and outlines a bold new vision for transforming maternal survival worldwide. For embargoed materials and interviews please contact: baileyn@who.int and guerraja@who.int with copying mediainquiries@who.int.   Media contacts: WHO: mediainquiries@who.int Africa CDC:  communications@africacdc.org.   You are receiving this NO-REPLY email because you are included on a WHO mail list. If you have been forwarded this update you can click here to subscribe. Journalists may send feedback to WHO Media Team       Share    Tweet    Share    Forward  World Health Organization, Avenue Appia 20, 1202 Geneva 27, Switzerland  Preferences  |  Unsubscribe