# Consolidated guidelines for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of postpartum haemorrhage (WHO, FIGO and ICM, 2025)

Guideline · id `maternal:pub-who-2025-pph` · Maternal & Newborn Atlas · release `90bf3ae42cf8937c` (public)

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## In plain language

The 2025 WHO guidelines on preventing, finding and treating heavy bleeding after childbirth. They bring recommendations together in one set, which WHO published with the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics and the International Confederation of Midwives.

## Technical summary

First edition, 2025. ISBN 978-92-4-011563-7 (electronic). Licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGO. WHO says it co-published the guidelines with FIGO and ICM, and the three collaborated on them through an executive steering group. The copyright line and the suggested citation name WHO alone. The WHO publication page date is 5 October 2025, which the atlas uses for WHO sources and decisions, and the IRIS record lists an issue date of 2025-09-26. The guidelines consolidate 51 recommendations. This atlas records recommendations 21, 22, 27 and 29. The web annexes with the evidence base were not read. Whether a later edition replaces it was not checked.

## Connected pages

- Developer and co-publisher (foreword; executive steering group): World Health Organization (`maternal:who`)
- Co-publisher with WHO and ICM (foreword; executive steering group): International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics (FIGO) (`maternal:figo`)
- Co-publisher with WHO and FIGO (foreword; executive steering group): International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) (`maternal:icm`)

## Provenance

Content hash: 6c0b660939238fc5a237dd5cd76f46b77472ca7dae4648dc06d8193d5c8f406f
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-14
Evidence last checked: 2026-10-14