Nigeria, Sept. 23 -- At a primary healthcare centre in Kaduna State, Zainab Garba remembers what health workers used to do when a woman began bleeding heavily after childbirth.

They would provide initial care, explain the seriousness of the situation to her relatives and prepare her for referral to a higher-level health facility.

For Ms Garba, an antenatal care provider at PHC Abdukwari in Sabon Gari LGA, who also assists with deliveries, there were limits to what health workers at her level could do.

But she said that began to change after she was trained to use the E-MOTIVE approach to detect and manage postpartum haemorrhage (PPH).

"With the presence of E-MOTIVE and the training given to us, we now do better," she said. "The majori...