• What does quality maternity care mean in a context of medical pluralism? Perspectives of women in Nigeria
  Health Policy and Planning | October 2017
• Methods used in prevalence studies of disrespect and abuse during facility based childbirth: Lessons learned
  Reproductive Health | October 2017
• Disrespect and abuse during pregnancy, labour and childbirth
  Ethiopian Journal of Health Development | October 2017
• Neither safe nor dignified
  The Hindu | October 2017
• Pregnant refugees must have access to better care, say doctors
  The Guardian | October 2017
• Factors determining satisfaction among facility-based maternity clients in Nepal
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | September 2017
• Development of a tool to measure person-centered maternity care in developing settings: Validation in a rural and urban Kenyan population
  Reproductive Health | September 2017
• Development of quality indicators for low-risk labor care provided by midwives using a RAND-modified Delphi method
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | September 2017
• Maternal mortality: Ethiopia (case study)
  Global Goals | September 2017
• Tanzania: Safe Motherhood now gets Sh32bn
  allAfrica | September 2017
• How these clinics are helping pregnant women in Zimbabwe
  ONE | September 2017
• D.C. has been failing to deliver for black mothers for a long time
  Washington Post | September 2017
• To reduce c-sections, change the culture of the labor ward
  The Wall Street Journal | September 2017
• Quality of maternal healthcare in South Sudan
  Healthcare Information for All | September 2017
• The prevalence of disrespect and abuse during facility-based maternity care in Malawi: Evidence from direct observations of labor and delivery
  Reproductive Health | September 2017
• Signal functions for emergency obstetric care as an intervention for reducing maternal mortality: A survey of public and private health facilities in Lusaka District, Zambia
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | September 2017
• Principles and processes behind promoting awareness of rights for quality maternal care services: A synthesis of stakeholder experiences and implementation factors
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2017
• Interventions to provide culturally-appropriate maternity care services: Factors affecting implementation
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2017
• Factors affecting effective community participation in maternal and newborn health programme planning, implementation and quality of care interventions
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2017
• Sowing the seeds of transformative practice to actualize women’s rights to respectful maternity care: Reflections from Kenya using the consolidated framework for implementation research
  BMC Women's Health | August 2017
• Companion of choice at birth: Factors affecting implementation
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2017
• Patterns and determinants of pathways to reach comprehensive emergency obstetric and neonatal care (CEmONC) in South Sudan: Qualitative diagrammatic pathway analysis
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2017
• Implementing the WHO integrated tool to assess quality of care for mothers, newborns and children: Results and lessons learnt from five districts in Malawi
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2017
• Implementing the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist: Lessons from a global collaboration
  BMJ Global Health | August 2017
• A Liberian woman follows her dream to make childbirth safer
  USAID | August 2017
• Exploring provider perspectives on respectful maternity care in Kenya: “Work with what you have”
  Reproductive Health | August 2017
• Midwives’ and patients’ perspectives on disrespect and abuse during labor and delivery care in Ethiopia: A qualitative study
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2017
• Pregnant and far from home, a sisterhood of the expecting
  The New York Times | August 2017
• Estimates of burden and consequences of infants born small for gestational age in low and middle income countries with INTERGROWTH-21st standard: Analysis of CHERG datasets
  BMJ | August 2017
• Kenya maternity fee waiver is great—but there are still gaps in the policy
  The Conversation | August 2017
• A little respect: Improving maternity care
  New Security Beat | August 2017
• RMC is not a luxury: The case for respectful maternity care in humanitarian settings
  American Refugee Committee International | August 2017
• Many nurses lack knowledge of health risks to mothers after childbirth
  NPR | August 2017
• Quality of midwife-provided intrapartum Care in Amhara Regional State, Ethiopia
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2017
• Caesarean births ‘boom’ is endangering women’s lives in Bangladesh
  Asian Correspondent | August 2017
• Trial of labour or elective repeat caesarean delivery: Are women making an informed decision at Kenyatta national hospital?
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2017
• The ResQu Index: A new instrument to appraise the quality of research on birth place
  PLOS One | August 2017
• Rural America’s childbirth crisis: The fight to save Whitney Brown
  Wall Street Journal | August 2017
• Implementing the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist: Lessons learnt on a quality improvement initiative to improve mother and newborn care at Gobabis District Hospital, Namibia
  BMJ Open Quality | August 2017
• Iraq launches UN-supported action plan to save lives of mothers and newborns
  UN News Centre | August 2017
• Midwives to end campaign to promote ‘normal births’
  The Guardian | August 2017
• Developing quality indicators for assessing quality of birth centre care: A mixed- methods study
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2017
• Safe delivery care practices in western Nepal: Does women’s autonomy influence the utilization of skilled care at birth?
  PLOS One | August 2017
• Improved maternity care if midwives learn to perform ultrasound: A qualitative study of Rwandan midwives’ experiences and views of obstetric ultrasound
  Global Health Action | August 2017
• More women from marginalised areas access skilled delivery services
  Capital News | August 2017
• Report on coerced sterilizations of Indigenous women spurs apology, but path forward unclear
  CBC News | July 2017
• A midwife is changing how women give birth in Mexico, one baby at a time
  STAT | July 2017
• Barriers to sexual and reproductive healthcare services as experienced by female sex workers and service providers in Dhaka city, Bangladesh
  PLOS One | July 2017
• Longer travel time to district hospital worsens neonatal outcomes: A retrospective cross-sectional study of the effect of delays in receiving emergency cesarean section in Rwanda
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | July 2017
• Dimensions of antenatal care service and the alacrity of mothers towards institutional delivery in South and South East Asia
  PLOS One | July 2017
• Institutional violence and quality of service in obstetrics are associated with postpartum depression
  Revista de Saude Publica | July 2017
• Effects of the EQUIP quasi-experimental study testing a collaborative quality improvement approach for maternal and newborn health care in Tanzania and Uganda
  Implementation Science | July 2017
• Effect of provision of home-based curative health services by public sector health-care providers on neonatal survival: A community-based cluster-randomised trial in rural Pakistan
  The Lancet Global Health | July 2017
• The cost effectiveness of a quality improvement program to reduce maternal and fetal mortality in a regional referral hospital in Accra, Ghana
  PLOS One | July 2017
• Satisfaction with caregivers during labour among low risk women in the Netherlands: The association with planned place of birth and transfer of care during labour
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | July 2017
• Identification of barriers and facilitators for optimal cesarean section care: Perspective of professionals
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | July 2017
• Putting women at the center: A review of Indian policy to address person-centered care in maternal and newborn health, family planning and abortion
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | July 2017
• Landscape evaluation of maternal health quality of care in India
  MacArthur Foundation | July 2017
• Doctors violate American women’s rights in delivery rooms every day
  Learn Liberty | July 2017
• Community and health system intervention to reduce disrespect and abuse during childbirth in Tanga Region, Tanzania: A comparative before-and-after study
  PLOS Medicine | July 2017
• Factors associated with maternal mortality in Malawi: Application of the three delays model
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | July 2017
• How female community health workers navigate work challenges and why there are still gaps in their performance: A look at female community health workers in maternal and child health in two Indian districts through a reciprocal determinism framework
  Human Resources for Health | July 2017
• In Bangladesh’s tea gardens, saving mothers and newborns
  UNFPA | July 2017
• Tanzania: Postpartum care neglect is one leading cause of deaths
  allAfrica | July 2017
• Hospital management practices may put women at risk for C-sections, complications during childbirth
  Harvard Chan School of Public Health | July 2017
• The third delay: Understanding waiting time for obstetric referrals at a large regional hospital in Ghana
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | July 2017
• Experiences of inequitable care among Afghan mothers surviving near-miss morbidity in Tehran, Iran: A qualitative interview study
  International Journal for Equity in Health | July 2017
• Researchers design intervention to stop abuse of mothers during childbirth
  VOA | July 2017
• Black moms die in childbirth 3 times as often as white moms. Except in North Carolina
  Vox | July 2017
• Enticing pregnant women in Liberia to give birth in health centers
  The New York Times | July 2017
• Discussing obstetric violence through the voices of women and health professionals
  Text & Context Nursing | July 2017
• Lagos targets 640,000 pregnant women in maternal, newborn week
  PM News | June 2017
• C-sections are still too common, experts say
  Consumer Reports | June 2017
• Africa: Debating the midwife profession
  allAfrica | June 2017
• Measuring women’s childbirth experiences: A systematic review for identification and analysis of validated instruments
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | June 2017
• Integrated person-centered health care for all women during pregnancy: Implementing World Health Organization recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience
  Global Health: Science and Practice | June 2017
• Improving adherence to essential birth practices using the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist with peer coaching: Experience from 60 public health facilities in Uttar Pradesh, India
  Global Health: Science and Practice | June 2017
• The BetterBirth Program: Pursuing effective adoption and sustained use of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist through coaching-based implementation in Uttar Pradesh, India
  Global Health: Science and Practice | June 2017
• The effect of an elective cesarean section on maternal request on peripartum anxiety and depression in women with childbirth fear: A systematic review
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | June 2017
• African leaders and 4,200 midwives unite to call for urgent global policy reform and recognition to help save one million lives per year
  allAfrica | June 2017
• Opinion: Invest in midwives to improve global health
  Devex | June 2017
• Effectiveness of antenatal care services in reducing neonatal mortality in Kenya: Analysis of national survey data
  Global Health Action | June 2017
• The experiences of women with maternal near miss and their perception of quality of care in Kelantan, Malaysia: A qualitative study
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | June 2017
• Maternal and baby health, scout for the best care available
  Capital News | June 2017
• ‘Midwifery is a calling, not just a profession’: Childbirth stories around the world
  The Guardian | June 2017
• Childbirth in Malawi: ‘I travelled to find the right blood, while my wife lay dying’
  The Guardian | June 2017
• The effect of performance-based financing on maternal healthcare use in Burundi: A two-wave pooled cross-sectional analysis
  Global Health Action | June 2017
• A continuous quality improvement intervention to improve the effectiveness of community health workers providing care to mothers and children: A cluster randomised controlled trial in South Africa
  Human Resources for Health | June 2017
• Is time of birth a predictor of adverse perinatal outcome? A hospital-based cross-sectional study in a low-resource setting, Tanzania
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | June 2017
• Quality, equity and dignity for preterm infants through family-centered care
  Indian Pediatrics | June 2017
• ‘Gentle’ c-sections are growing in popularity
  CNN | June 2017
• Evaluation of obstetricians’ surgical decision making in the management of uterine rupture
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | June 2017
• Associations between perceptions of care and women’s childbirth experience: A population-based cross-sectional study in Rwanda
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | June 2017
• Intermittent transfer of midwives threatens quality maternal, newborn care
  Makerere University Centre of Excellence for MNCH | June 2017
• Labour management guidelines for a Tanzanian referral hospital: The participatory development process and birth attendants’ perceptions
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | June 2017
• Perceptions of quality across the maternal care continuum in the context of a health financing intervention: Evidence from a mixed methods study in rural Malawi
  BMC Health Services Research | June 2017
• Malawi still behind in eliminating maternal deaths
  Capital News | June 2017
• 70th World Health Assembly: Country progress in improving women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health
  PMNCH | May 2017
• The influence of quality maternity waiting homes on utilization of facilities for delivery in rural Zambia
  Reproductive Health | May 2017
• Factors associated with utilization of skilled service delivery among women in rural northern Ghana: A cross-sectional study
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | May 2017
• The doctor who revolutionized hospital-birth safety
  The Atlantic | May 2017
• Limited service availability, readiness, and use of facility-based delivery care in Haiti: A study linking health facility data and population data
  Global Health: Science and Practice | May 2017
• Quality of antenatal care predicts retention in skilled birth attendance: A multilevel analysis of 28 African countries
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | May 2017
• Defining disrespect and abuse of newborns: A review of the evidence and an expanded typology of respectful maternity care
  Reproductive Health | May 2017
• Is quality of care a key predictor of perinatal health care utilization and patient satisfaction in Malawi?
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | May 2017
• Maternal care quality in near miss and maternal mortality in an academic public tertiary hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia: A retrospective cohort study
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | May 2017
• Disability is not asexuality: The childbearing experiences and aspirations of women with disability in Zimbabwe
  Reproductive Health Matters | May 2017
• Family-centered care for sick newborns: A paradigm of social collaboration to improve maternal newborn health outcomes
  Healthy Newborn Network | May 2017
• Quality of maternity care and its determinants along the continuum in Kenya: A structural equation modeling analysis
  PLOS One | May 2017
• Quality of care: Driving change through country leadership
  PMNCH | May 2017
• Respectful maternity care in Ethiopian public health facilities
  Reproductive Health | May 2017
• How a simple checklist can save women’s lives
  Medium | May 2017
• Assam’s steady steps to ensure safe motherhood
  Northeast Today | May 2017
• Too much, too soon: Addressing over-intervention in maternity care
  New Security Beat | May 2017
• Improved postpartum care after a participatory facilitation intervention in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: A mixed method evaluation
  Global Health Action | May 2017
• Rwanda: What we need to address the plight of midwives
  allAfrica | May 2017
• A little respect: Saraswathi Vedam on reducing over-intervention in maternal care through more autonomy
  New Security Beat | May 2017
• Barriers to utilization of childbirth services of a rural birthing center in Nepal: A qualitative study
  PLOS One | May 2017
• Unmasking inequalities: Sub-national maternal and child mortality data from two urban slums in Lagos, Nigeria tells the story
  PLOS One | May 2017
• Incentivizing respectful maternity care – Could PBF promote comprehensive change?
  Health Financing Africa | May 2017
• Variation in quality of primary-care services in Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda and the United Republic of Tanzania
  WHO | May 2017
• From crisis comes opportunity to improve refugees’ reproductive health
  News Deeply | May 2017
• Midwives offer care, dignity and a lifeline for Haiti’s mothers
  UNFPA | May 2017
• To reduce maternal deaths, look to midwives
  UNFPA | May 2017
• Ghana government affirms commitment to meet SDGs
  Ghana Business Web | May 2017
• Evaluation of a quality improvement intervention for obstetric and neonatal care in selected public health facilities across six states of India
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | May 2017
• Maternal and neonatal services in Ethiopia: Measuring and improving quality
  WHO | April 2017
• Quality of routine essential care during childbirth: Clinical observations of uncomplicated births in Uttar Pradesh, India
  WHO | April 2017
• Kenya: NHIF pays out Sh1bn for c-section child deliveries
  allAfrica | April 2017
• Using a quality improvement model to enhance providers’ performance in maternal and newborn health care: A post-only intervention and comparison design
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | April 2017
• The effect of health insurance and health facility-upgrades on hospital deliveries in rural Nigeria: A controlled interrupted time-series study
  Health Policy and Planning | April 2017
• Taking quality improvement to the next level: How our “golden” public-private partnership is advancing maternal health care in India and providing lessons for other countries
  Merck for Mothers | April 2017
• Costa Rican state hospitals further improve newborn and maternal care
  The Costa Rica Star | March 2017
• Getting the message home: Advocacy for health accountability in Uganda
  Maternal and Child Survival Program | March 2017
• Using quality improvement approaches for better community health
  Maternal and Child Survival Program | March 2017
• A qualitative study: Mothers of late preterm infants relate their experiences of community-based care
  PLOS One | March 2017
• Making healthcare affordable: Women’s savings and loans clubs to the rescue
  Maternal and Child Survival Program | March 2017
• In a broken health care system, this initiative is working hard to prevent maternal deaths
  Youth Ki Awaaz | March 2017
• The effects of cash transfers and vouchers on the use and quality of maternity care services: A systematic review
  PLOS One | March 2017
• Disrespect and abuse of women during childbirth in Nigeria: A systematic review
  PLOS One | March 2017
• Midwife-led maternity care in Ireland – A retrospective cohort study
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | March 2017
• It takes a village and data: Using routine health information to ensure safe, institutionalized births in Mozambique
  Maternal and Child Survival Program | March 2017
• Can a simulation-based training program impact the use of evidence based routine practices at birth? Results of a hospital-based cluster randomized trial in Mexico
  PLOS One | March 2017
• WHO recommendations on antenatal care for a positive pregnancy experience – Going beyond survival
  BJOG | March 2017
• Evaluating the content and quality of intrapartum care in vaginal births: An example of a state hospital
  Turkish Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology | March 2017
• Qualitative assessment of women’s satisfaction with maternal health care in referral hospitals in Nigeria
  Reproductive Health | March 2017
• Maternal and neonatal service usage and determinants in fragile and conflict-affected situations: A systematic review of Asia and the Middle-East
  BMC Women's Health | March 2017
• Providers of antenatal care services in Ghana: Evidence from Ghana Demographic and Health Surveys 1988–2014
  BMC Health Services Research | March 2017
• Quality of the delivery services in health facilities in northern Ethiopia
  BMC Health Services Research | March 2017
• Integrating postabortion care, menstrual regulation and family planning services in Bangladesh: A pre-post evaluation
  Reproductive Health | March 2017
• India joins 8 nations to improve quality of care around birth
  Healthworld | March 2017
• Quality of reproductive healthcare for adolescents: A nationally representative survey of providers in Mexico
  PLOS One | March 2017
• “Death by delivery” exposes how shamefully bad our maternal care is for black women
  Bustle | March 2017
• On International Women’s Day, highlighting health financing for maternal health
  Health Finance & Governance | March 2017
• Improving access to maternal health services for women
  New Vision | March 2017
• Manifestations and drivers of mistreatment of women during childbirth in Kenya: Implications for measurement and developing interventions
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | March 2017
• “Is the doctor God to punish me?!” An intersectional examination of disrespectful and abusive care during childbirth against single mothers in Tunisia
  Reproductive Health | March 2017
• Why maternal mental health matters
  Huffingtion Post | March 2017
• Educated ‘mothers-to-be’ likely to get better hospital care
  The Hindu Business Line | March 2017
• Researchers quantify consequences of Ebola outbreak on maternal and child health services
  News-Medical | February 2017
• Poor women in rural areas still bear the brunt of maternal mortality
  Standard Media | February 2017
• The mother’s autonomy in decision-making (MADM) scale: Patient-led development and psychometric testing of a new instrument to evaluate experience of maternity care
  PLOS One | February 2017
• Labor pain experiences and perceptions: A qualitative study among postpartum women in Ghana
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | February 2017
• Just 7% of pregnant women and new moms with mental health problems get specialist care
  Huffingtion Post | February 2017
• 10 ways to improve the quality of care in health facilities
  WHO | February 2017
• More women delivering in hospitals, but many still dying during childbirth, shows study
  Every Life Counts | February 2017
• Tanzania: Govt vows to downgrade inefficient health centers
  allAfrica | February 2017
• Honoring motherhood: The meaning of childbirth for Tongan women
  The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing | February 2017
• A qualitative study of factors impacting accessing of institutional delivery care in the context of India’s cash incentive program
  Social Science & Medicine | February 2017
• Unpredictability dictates quality of maternal and newborn care provision in rural Tanzania – A qualitative study of health workers’ perspectives
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | February 2017
• Midwives’ care during childbirth drastically improves outcomes for laboring mothers
  Mail & Guardian | February 2017
• Nine countries commit to halve maternal and newborn deaths in health facilities
  WHO | February 2017
• Implementation research to improve quality of maternal and newborn health care, Malawi
  WHO | February 2017
• Midwives and the right of women to give birth the way they want to
  The Conversation | February 2017
• Launch of network for improving quality of care for maternal, newborn and child health
  PMNCH | February 2017
• Health facility and skilled birth deliveries among poor women with Jamkesmas health insurance in Indonesia: A mixed-methods study
  BMC Health Services Research | February 2017
• FG inaugurates committee on maternal, newborn health
  The News Nigeria | February 2017
• Determining the effective coverage of maternal and child health services in Kenya, using demographic and health survey data sets: Tracking progress towards universal health coverage
  Tropical Medicine & International Health | February 2017
• Most women don’t value hospital c-section rates in choosing where to give birth, according to new study
  Ariadne Labs | February 2017
• Human rights in childbirth, narratives and restorative justice: A review
  Reproductive Health | February 2017
• A call for collaboration on respectful, person-centered health care in family planning and maternal health
  Reproductive Health | February 2017
• Poor quality for poor women? Inequities in the quality of antenatal and delivery care in Kenya
  PLOS One | January 2017
• The majority of stillbirths occur in Africa but how does a mother deal with the loss?
  Huffingtion Post | January 2017
• Address maternal health violations
  Standard Digital | January 2017
• How do pregnant women use quality measures when choosing their obstetric provider?
  Birth | January 2017
• Is perceived discrimination in pregnancy prospectively linked to postpartum depression? Exploring the role of education
  Maternal and Child Health Journal | January 2017
• The Mothers on Respect (MOR) index: Measuring quality, safety, and human rights in childbirth
  SSM - Population Health | January 2017
• Mistreatment of women during childbirth in Abuja, Nigeria: A qualitative study on perceptions and experiences of women and healthcare providers
  Reproductive Health | January 2017
• Perceptions and experiences of the mistreatment of women during childbirth in health facilities in Guinea: A qualitative study with women and service providers
  Reproductive Health | January 2017
• Assessment of quality of care among in-patients with postpartum haemorrhage and severe pre-eclampsia at St. Francis Hospital, Nsambya: A criteria-based audit
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | January 2017
• A qualitative study of women’s and health providers’ attitudes and acceptability of mistreatment during childbirth in health facilities in Guinea
  Reproductive Health | January 2017
• Discrimination against childbearing Romani women in maternity care in Europe: A mixed-methods systematic review
  Reproductive Health | January 2017
• Women’s descriptions of childbirth trauma relating to care provider actions and interactions
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | January 2017
• Prevalence of burnout, depression, anxiety and stress in Australian midwives: A cross-sectional survey
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | January 2017
• Antenatal care trial interventions: A systematic scoping review and taxonomy development of care models
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | January 2017
• Janani Suraksha Yojana: ‘Cash schemes can’t solve maternity deaths’
  DNA India | January 2017
• Pharmacy provision of sexual and reproductive health commodities to young people: A systematic literature review and synthesis of the evidence
  Contraception | December 2016
• Web-based quality assurance process drives improvements in obstetric ultrasound in 5 low- and middle-income countries
  Global Health: Science and Practice | December 2016
• Labour of love: The volunteers helping fellow refugees give birth
  The Guardian | December 2016
• Stillbirth – A challenge for the 21st century
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | December 2016
• Misdiagnosis of obstetrical cases and the clinical and cost consequences to patients: A cross-sectional study of urban providers in the Philippines
  Global Health Action | December 2016
• The role of civil society in strengthening intercultural maternal health care in local health facilities: Puno, Peru
  Global Health Action | December 2016
• Quality management: Where is the evidence? Developing an indicator-based approach in Kenya
  International Journal for Quality in Health Care | December 2016
• Effectiveness of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist program in reducing severe maternal, fetal, and newborn harm in Uttar Pradesh, India: Study protocol for a matched-pair, cluster-randomized controlled trial
  Trials | December 2016
• Can Uttar Pradesh improve its health care indicators with mSakhi?
  IntraHealth International | December 2016
• Dimensions of patient satisfaction with comprehensive abortion care in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  Reproductive Health | December 2016
• Quality improvement initiatives lead to reduction in nulliparous term singleton vertex cesarean delivery rate
  The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety | November 2016
• Change over time in women’s views and experiences of maternity care in England, 1995–2014: A comparison using survey data
  Midwifery | November 2016
• Emergency obstetric and neonatal care needs assessment: Results of the 2010 and 2014 surveys in Burkina Faso
  International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics | November 2016
• Midwives and ObGyn agree to tackle stubbornly high maternal mortality
  Myanmar Times | November 2016
• International human rights and the mistreatment of women during childbirth
  Health and Human Rights Journal | November 2016
• What women want: Exploring pregnant women’s preferences for alternative models of maternity care
  Health Policy | November 2016
• Cruelty in labour wards: Maternal health problems in Malawi
  Nyasa Times | November 2016
• Criteria-based audit to improve quality of care of foetal distress: Standardising obstetric care at a national referral hospital in a low resource setting, Tanzania
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | November 2016
• ‘Stop! Stop!’: Canadian women share stories of alleged mistreatment in the delivery room
  CBC News | November 2016
• Factors determining quality of care in family planning services in Africa: A systematic review of mixed evidence
  PLOS One | November 2016
• Maternal near miss and quality of care in a rural Rwandan hospital
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | October 2016
• Maternal health: Saraki’s wife advocates data collection for better health care system
  Daily Post | October 2016
• The campaign for respectful maternal healthcare, midwife led care and family inclusive care all have the same aim
  Family Included | October 2016
• Quality of care, equity and investments in women’s, children’s and adolescents’ health: Key findings highlighted at APHA meeting
  PMNCH | October 2016
• Scorecards and social accountability for improved maternal and newborn health services: A pilot in the Ashanti and Volta regions of Ghana
  International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics | October 2016
• Barriers and enablers to guideline implementation strategies to improve obstetric care practice in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review of qualitative evidence
  Implementation Science | October 2016
• Evaluating strategies to improve HIV care outcomes in Kenya: A modelling study
  The Lancet | October 2016
• Adequacy of public maternal care services in Brazil
  Reproductive Health | October 2016
• Good practices according to WHO’s recommendation for normal labor and birth and women’s assessment of the care received: The “Birth in Brazil” national research study, 2011/2012
  Reproductive Health | October 2016
• Obstetric facility quality and newborn mortality in Malawi: A cross-sectional study
  PLOS Medicine | October 2016
• A mother’s nightmare that is Bihar
  BusinessLine | October 2016
• Performance-based incentives may be appropriate to address challenges to delivery of prevention of vertical transmission of HIV services in rural Mozambique: A qualitative investigation
  Human Resources for Health | October 2016
• Service readiness, health facility management practices, and delivery care utilization in five states of Nigeria: A cross-sectional analysis
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | October 2016
• Good practices according to WHO’s recommendation for normal labor and birth and women’s assessment of the care received: The “Birth in Brazil” national research study, 2011/2012
  Reproductive Health | October 2016
• Reduce maternal mortality in Nigeria: Lessons from Ondo State
  Center for Strategic & International Studies | October 2016
• From MDGs to SDGs: Implications for maternal newborn health in Africa
  African Journal of Reproductive Health | September 2016
• ‘We saw she was in danger, but couldn’t do anything’: Missed opportunities and health worker disempowerment during birth care in rural Burkina Faso
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | September 2016
• Health care provider knowledge and routine management of pre-eclampsia in Pakistan
  Reproductive Health | September 2016
• Treatment of women who suffer maternal tragedies ‘shameful’
  Irish Times | September 2016
• Some states have great health care for infants — And terrible health care for pregnant women
  Vox | September 2016
• Quality, equity and dignity for all women and babies
  Rights and Realities | September 2016
• Quality of basic maternal care functions in health facilities of five African countries: An analysis of national health system surveys
  The Lancet | September 2016
• “When the baby remains there for a long time, it is going to die so you have to hit her small for the baby to come out”: Justification of disrespectful and abusive care during childbirth among midwifery students in Ghana
  Health Policy and Planning | September 2016
• Do active patients seek higher quality prenatal care?: A panel data analysis from Nairobi, Kenya
  Preventive Medicine | September 2016
• Indigenous ethnicity and low maternal education are associated with delayed diagnosis and mortality in infants with congenital heart defects in Panama
  PLOS One | September 2016
• A look at maternal care: Too little, too late for some; too much, too soon for others
  Humanosphere | September 2016
• Lethal gaps in maternal care: Q&A with Wendy Graham
  Global Health Now | September 2016
• Subnational variation for care at birth in Tanzania: Is this explained by place, people, money or drugs?
  BMC Public Health | September 2016
• Service availability and readiness assessment of maternal, newborn and child health services at public health facilities in Madagascar
  African Journal of Reproductive Health | September 2016
• “By slapping their laps, the patient will know that you truly care for her”: A qualitative study on social norms and acceptability of the mistreatment of women during childbirth in Abuja, Nigeria
  SSM - Population Health | September 2016
• Measuring progress in maternal and newborn health care in Mexico: Validating indicators of health system contact and quality of care
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2016
• Giving birth in Guinea: A life or death lottery bereft of midwives and medicine
  The Guardian | August 2016
• Nigeria: Saving mothers and babies – An investment for national development
  allAfrica | August 2016
• The prevalence of disrespect and abuse during facility-based childbirth in urban Tanzania
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2016
• Clinical and perceived quality of care for maternal, neonatal and antenatal care in Kenya and Namibia: The service provision assessment
  Reproductive Health | August 2016
• Women with intellectual disability are at a higher risk of adverse maternal and offspring outcomes
  BJOG | August 2016
• Switching the poles in sexual and reproductive health research: Implementing a research capacity-strengthening network in West and North Africa
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• The timing of antenatal care initiation and the content of care in Sindh, Pakistan
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• Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM) Special Report: Current approaches to measuring quality of care in obstetrics
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• Applying a participatory approach to the promotion of a culture of respect during childbirth
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• Quality of antenatal care and household wealth as determinants of institutional delivery in Pakistan: Results of a cross-sectional household survey
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  PLOS One | June 2016
• Challenges women with disability face in accessing and using maternal healthcare services in Ghana: A qualitative study
  PLOS One | June 2016
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• Obstetric violence: A new framework for identifying challenges to maternal healthcare in Argentina
  Reproductive Health Matters | May 2016
• Postnatal care: Increasing coverage, equity, and quality
  The Lancet | May 2016
• Marvellous to mediocre: Findings of national survey of UK practice and provision of care in pregnancies after stillbirth or neonatal death
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | May 2016
• Adoption and completeness of documentation using a structured delivery record in secondary care, subdistrict government hospitals of Karnataka State, India
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• What prevents quality midwifery care? A systematic mapping of barriers in low and middle income countries from the provider perspective
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  PLOS One | April 2016
• Effect of pay for performance to improve quality of maternal and child care in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic review
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• A rapid assessment tool for affirming good practice in midwifery education programming
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• Assessing the validity of indicators of the quality of maternal and newborn health care in Kenya
  Journal of Global Health | March 2016
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  International Perspectives on Sexual and Reproductive Health | March 2016
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• Levels and variations in the quality of facility-based antenatal care in Kenya: Evidence from the 2010 service provision assessment
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• A literature review of quantitative indicators to measure the quality of labor and delivery care
  International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics | February 2016
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  WHO | February 2016
• Maternal near misses from two referral hospitals in Uganda: A prospective cohort study on incidence, determinants and prognostic factors
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | January 2016
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  The Lancet | January 2016
• An ethnographic investigation of the maternity healthcare experience of immigrants in rural and urban Alberta, Canada
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• Quality of life in women who were exposed to domestic violence during pregnancy
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  The Lancet | January 2016
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• Reductions in stillbirths – More than a triple return on investment
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• Stillbirths: Progress and unfinished business
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• Stillbirths: Recall to action in high-income countries
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• Stillbirths: Economic and psychosocial consequences
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• Malawi and Millennium Development Goal 4: A Countdown to 2015 country case study
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• Address Malata: Advancing nursing and midwifery in Malawi
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• Evaluation of a mHealth data quality intervention to improve documentation of pregnancy outcomes by health surveillance assistants in Malawi: A cluster randomized trial
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• Assessment of the quality and content of national and international guidelines on hypertensive disorders of pregnancy using the AGREE II instrument
  BMJ Open | January 2016
• Planned out-of-hospital birth and birth outcomes
  The New England Journal of Medicine | December 2015
• Kangaroo mother care: A systematic review of barriers and enablers
  WHO | December 2015
• What matters to women: A systematic scoping review to identify the processes and outcomes of antenatal care provision that are important to healthy pregnant women
  BJOG | December 2015
• Antenatal and postnatal care: A review of innovative models for improving availability, accessibility, acceptability and quality of services in low-resource settings
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  UNFPA | November 2015
• Losing women along the path to safe motherhood: Why is there such a gap between women’s use of antenatal care and skilled birth attendance? A mixed methods study in northern Uganda
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  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | September 2015
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• Women’s health priorities and interventions
  The BMJ | September 2015
• Assessment of women’s perspectives and experiences of childbirth and postnatal care using Q-methodology
  Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal | September 2015
• “Once the government employs you, it forgets you”: Health workers’ and managers’ perspectives on factors influencing working conditions for provision of maternal health care services in a rural district of Tanzania
  Human Resources for Health | September 2015
• Role of the private sector in childbirth care: cross-sectional survey evidence from 57 low- and middle-income countries using Demographic and Health Surveys
  Tropical Medicine & International Health | September 2015
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• A questionnaire to measure women’s experiences with pregnancy, birth and postnatal care: instrument development and assessment following a national survey in Norway
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• Shameful operating room moments: Medical journal on calling out ‘dirtball’ doctors
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• How women are treated during facility-based childbirth: Development and validation of measurement tools in four countries – Phase 1 formative research study protocol
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• The abortion that let me be a mother
  BuzzFeed Ideas | July 2015
• Does the Janani Suraksha Yojana cash transfer programme to promote facility births in India ensure skilled birth attendance? A qualitative study of intrapartum care in Madhya Pradesh
  Global Health Action | July 2015
• Stronger health systems could end abuse during childbirth
  IntraHealth Vital blog | July 2015
• India, top steriliser of women, needs new contraceptive ideas
  The Times of India | July 2015
• Zimbabwe: Newly born babies detained in SA hospitals over due fees
  AllAfrica | July 2015
• Metasynthesis: Experiences of women with severe maternal morbidity and their perception of the quality of health care
  PLOS ONE | July 2015
• Uganda: Expectant mothers deserve decent care
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• WHO confirms women face sexual abuse even during childbirth
  The Health Site | July 2015
• Having a baby? Big differences in hospital quality across Massachusetts
  WBUR | July 2015
• How Medicaid coverage for doula care could improve birth outcomes, reduce costs, and improve equity
  Health Affairs Blog | July 2015
• Many women treated disrespectfully, abusively in childbirth, report says
  The Seattle Times | June 2015
• Development and validation of an index to measure the quality of facility-based labor and delivery care processes in sub-Saharan Africa
  PLOS ONE | June 2015
• Report shows widespread mistreatment by health workers during childbirth
  The New York Times | June 2015
• The mistreatment of women during childbirth in health facilities globally: A mixed-methods systematic review
  PLOS Medicine | June 2015
• Georgia officials seek solutions to high maternal mortality rates
  RH Reality Check | June 2015
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• Perceptions of health care providers and patients on quality of care in maternal and neonatal health in fourteen Bangladesh government healthcare facilities: A mixed-method study
  BMC Health Services Research | June 2015
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  PLOS ONE | June 2015
• A NICE delivery — The cross-Atlantic divide over treatment intensity in childbirth
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• Peruvian women haunted by forced sterilization seek state apology
  Reuters | June 2015
• Sights and awful sounds from the labour room of an Indian public hospital
  Scroll.in | June 2015
• New mothers get a new kind of care in rural Nigeria
  NPR | May 2015
• Africa: World Bank supports improved maternal and child health services beyond Ebola outbreak
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• Views of Swedish commissioning parents relating to the exploitation discourse in using transnational surrogacy
  PLOS ONE | May 2015
• Quality of care for pregnant women and newborns – The WHO vision
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• The story that fuels hope
  Huffington Post | May 2015
• The world’s mothers don’t always get the care they need
  NPR | May 2015
• Assessment of the use of the new maternity case record in improving the quality of ante natal care in eThekwini District, KwaZulu-Natal
  International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences | April 2015
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  PLOS ONE | April 2015
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  SheKnows | April 2015
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  PLOS ONE | April 2015
• Status of respectful and non-abusive care during facility-based childbirth in a hospital and health centers in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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• Perceptions of the effects of armed conflict on maternal and reproductive health services and outcomes in Burundi and northern Uganda: A qualitative study
  BMC International Health and Human Rights | April 2015
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• Criteria-based audit of quality of care to women with severe pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in a referral hospital in Accra, Ghana
  PLOS ONE | April 2015
• Rights-based maternity care must become a global priority
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• A new performance measurement system for maternal and child health in the United States
  Maternal and Child Health Journal | April 2015
• Barriers to providing quality emergency obstetric care in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: Healthcare providers’ perspectives on training, referrals and supervision, a mixed methods study
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• Evaluating the impact of the community-based health planning and services initiative on uptake of skilled birth care in Ghana
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• What it’s like to be a midwife in one of the most remote parts of Vietnam
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• When the only way to see a doctor while going into labor is to tweet at a brand
  The Awl | March 2015
• Despite anti-shackling law, pregnant prisoners say practice persists
  Aljazeera | March 2015
• Implementation of the WHO Safe Childbirth Checklist program at a tertiary care setting in Sri Lanka: A developing country experience
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• Report: Gross violations of women’s reproductive rights in NY prisons
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• ‘The doctor used a hacksaw on me during labour’: Ireland’s women speak out
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• Rural/urban and socioeconomic differentials in quality of antenatal care in Ghana
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• Achieving the goal of the London Summit on Family Planning by adhering to voluntary, rights-based family planning: What can we learn from past experiences with coercion?
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  Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes | December 2014
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  BJOG | July 2012
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  University of Maryland | July 2012
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