This book, launched at the Presidential Symposium at the XVIII World Congress of the
International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) in 2006 in Kuala
Lumpur, Malaysia, marks an important day in the battle for improved treatment possibilities
for postpartum hemorrhage. Beginning in October 2003 at the World Congress
in Santiago, Chile, FIGO launched an international effort with other partners and
donors to develop strategies to prevent postpartum hemorrhage and, in the cases where
it still occurred, to identify effective medical and surgical treatments.