# World Health Organization

Organization · id `maternal:who` · Maternal & Newborn Atlas · release `15708f235d73cd42` (public)

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Also called: WHO

## In plain language

The United Nations agency for international public health.

## Technical summary

Primary sponsor of the WHO Immediate KMC Study (ANZCTR, ICTRP) and issuer of the 2022 guideline on care of the preterm or low-birth-weight infant. It also issued postpartum haemorrhage guidance: the 2017 recommendation on tranexamic acid for treatment, the 2023 recommendations on assessing blood loss and on a treatment bundle, and the 2025 consolidated guideline on prevention, diagnosis and treatment. The institution role is a placeholder that the schema requires.

## Connected pages

- Issued the 2023 and 2025 recommendations on objective blood-loss measurement: Late detection of postpartum haemorrhage (`maternal:bottleneck-pph-detection`)
- Authored: WHO recommendations on antenatal corticosteroids (2022) (`maternal:pub-who-2022-acs`)
- Authored: WHO recommendations for care of the preterm or low-birth-weight infant (2022) (`maternal:pub-who-2022-preterm-lbw`)
- Sponsors: WHO ACTION-I trial (`maternal:action-i-trial`)
- Funds: WHO ACTION-I trial (`maternal:action-i-trial`)
- Sponsors: WHO Immediate KMC Study (iKMC) (`maternal:ikmc-study`)

## Provenance

Content hash: 91b3d9214d716ff49b6ce77aa292c6f84758bc47a1ca78878a4fe60a33146179
Last substantive edit: 2026-10-12
Evidence last checked: Not recorded