Copyright: Nahom Tesfaye / UNICEF Ethiopia, (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Ian Roberts, Professor of Epidemiology and Co-Director of the Clinical Trials Unit at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, highlights the need to treat heavy menstrual bleeding as a global health priority in a comment piece for SciDev. The article explains how heavy periods can cause anaemia which in turn increases the risk of severe bleeding after childbirth.