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Muito Obrigado, Brasil: Inside PAPAGAIO’s Brasília Team Meeting This June, members of the PAPAGAIO team travelled to Brasília for a landmark week, combining a Trial Update Meeting with attendance at the 58th Congress of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of the Federal District (SGOB), hosted by the Brazilian Society of Gynaecology and Obstetrics. Science on the stage […]

Published in The Lancet Obstetrics, Gynaecology & Women’s Health, the review, led by researchers at King’s College London and CRIBS Global, finds that biomarker testing could transform pre-eclampsia diagnosis in resource-limited settings, but that major barriers to access must be urgently addressed. Pre-eclampsia kills an estimated 42,000 mothers and 500,000 babies every year, with 92%

Ernest Swaray is the Project Manager for CRADLE SMART in Sierra Leone. In this profile, he talks about coordinating a complex maternal health programme, why management is at the heart of better healthcare, and what keeps him motivated. Ernest Swaray didn’t train as a clinician, but his work sits at the very centre of CRIBS

Global Evidence on Mentorship Two new studies from the 2YoungLives research team at King’s College London and Lifeline Nehemiah Projects set out global evidence on community-based mentoring for adolescent girls during pregnancy and after birth, and expose the structural barriers facing those living with disability in Sierra Leone. Two papers published this week by the

  On 22 May 2026, CRIBS Global joined hands across continents: from Sierra Leone and Zambia to India and Brazil, to mark World Pre‑eclampsia Day with powerful community action. In Sierra Leone, our CRADLE SMART team screened 509 women in the marketplace in one morning, uncovering urgent needs: 13% had dangerously high blood pressure, and

Severe bleeding after birth (postpartum haemorrhage) is the leading cause of maternal mortality globally. It causes approximately 70,000 deaths annually. About 80% occur in Africa and South Asia. A recently published World Health Organisation analysis shows postpartum haemorrhage accounts for 28% of maternal deaths in sub-Saharan Africa, compared to 14% in northern Europe. Another leading cause of maternal mortality

A new Cochrane review led by Dr Alice Beardmore-Gray from King’s College London, with senior authorship from Professor Cathy Cluver of Stellenbosch University, shows that planned early birth nearly halves serious complications for women with high blood pressure in pregnancy — without raising the risk of a caesarean section. For the obstetricians who care for