PPIP 2

Perinatal Problem Identification Program v2

'Saving Babies' reports

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Saving babies

"The national PPIP database administered by the MRC Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies Research Unit was set up on 1 October 1999. The network has now been in operation for more than a decade. It is a tribute to all the sites commitment that the audits have been sustained for this period of time. This seventh report will distil the messages learnt from a decade of collecting and analysing the data, as well as providing detail of the 2008-2009 data. Data submitted to the national database from the 1st January 2008 until 31st December 2009 is analysed. During this period 275 sites from throughout the country have submitted data and just fewer than 963,000 births have been entered. This comprises approximately 52.4% of all births in health institutions recorded by DHIS (October 2010) in South Africa during this time period. This is significant progress compared with the 27 sites and 123 508 births in the first report in 2000.


The large number of sites and access to the DHIS data has enabled us to continue to analyse the data on a level of care basis. The report also deals in more detail with the District Hospitals, the area identified with the biggest need, and the gap in reporting late neonatal deaths."

- Saving babies 2008-2009: Seventh report on perinatal care in South Africa.