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• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
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• 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
• Manifestations and drivers of mistreatment of women during childbirth in Kenya: Implications for measurement and developing interventions
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | March 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
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• Using quality improvement approaches for better community health
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• 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
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• 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
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• Midwife-led maternity care in Ireland – a retrospective cohort study
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• It takes a village and data: Using routine health information to ensure safe, institutionalized births in Mozambique
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• 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
• 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
• “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
• 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
• FG inaugurates committee on maternal, newborn health
  The News Nigeria | 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
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• 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
• Emergency obstetric and neonatal care needs assessment: Results of the 2010 and 2014 surveys in Burkina Faso
  International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics | November 2016
• Indicators of availability, use, and quality of emergency obstetric and neonatal care in Togo in 2012
  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
• 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
• 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
• Strengthening accountability for improved maternal and newborn health: A mapping of studies in Sub-Saharan Africa
  International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics | 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
• 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
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• 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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• Mitigating disrespect and abuse during childbirth in Tanzania: An exploratory study of the effects of two facility-based interventions in a large public hospital
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• Decision-making for delivery location and quality of care among slum-dwellers: A qualitative study in Uttar Pradesh, India
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• 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
  Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology | May 2016
• What prevents quality midwifery care? A systematic mapping of barriers in low and middle income countries from the provider perspective
  PLOS One | May 2016
• Institutional delivery and satisfaction among indigenous and poor women in Guatemala, Mexico, and Panama
  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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• Development of a tool to measure women’s perception of respectful maternity care in public health facilities
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | March 2016
• 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
• Community and provider perceptions of traditional and skilled birth attendants providing maternal health care for pastoralist communities in Kenya: a qualitative study
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | March 2016
• Factors influencing women’s preference for health facility deliveries in Jharkhand state, India: A cross sectional analysis
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | March 2016
• The increasing trend in caesarean section rates: Global, regional and national estimates: 1990-2014
  PLOS One | February 2016
• Do efforts to standardize, assess and improve the quality of health service provision to adolescents by government-run health services in low and middle income countries, lead to improvements in service-quality and service-utilization by adolescents?
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  International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics | February 2016
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  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | January 2016
• Planned Out-of-Hospital Birth and Birth Outcomes
  The New England Journal of Medicine | December 2015
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  The Lancet | January 2016
• An ethnographic investigation of the maternity healthcare experience of immigrants in rural and urban Alberta, Canada
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | January 2016
• Quality of life in women who were exposed to domestic violence during pregnancy
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | January 2016
• Stillbirths: ending an epidemic of grief
  The Lancet | January 2016
• Supporting women, families, and care providers after stillbirths
  The Lancet | January 2016
• Reductions in stillbirths—more than a triple return on investment
  The Lancet | January 2016
• Stillbirths: progress and unfinished business
  The Lancet | January 2016
• Stillbirths: recall to action in high-income countries
  The Lancet | January 2016
• Stillbirths: economic and psychosocial consequences
  The Lancet | January 2016
• Malawi and Millennium Development Goal 4: a Countdown to 2015 country case study
  The Lancet | January 2016
• Address Malata: advancing nursing and midwifery in Malawi
  The Lancet | January 2016
• Evidence for action on improving the maternal and newborn health workforce: The basis for quality care
  International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics | 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
  BJOG | December 2015
• Evaluation of a mHealth Data Quality Intervention to Improve Documentation of Pregnancy Outcomes by Health Surveillance Assistants in Malawi: A Cluster Randomized Trial
  PLOS One | January 2016
• Spatial distribution of emergency obstetric and newborn care services in Ghana: Using the evidence to plan interventions
  International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics | December 2015
• Factors associated with compliance with the recommended frequency of postnatal care services in three rural districts of Tanzania
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | December 2015
• Minimum Standards for Prevention and Response to Gender-based Violence in Emergencies
  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
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | November 2015
• Scaling up quality care for mothers and newborns around the time of birth: An overview of methods and analyses of intervention-specific bottlenecks and solutions
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | September 2015
• Quality care during labour and birth: A multi-country analysis of health system bottlenecks and potential solutions
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | September 2015
• Basic newborn care and neonatal resuscitation: A multi-country analysis of health system bottlenecks and potential solutions
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | September 2015
• Kangaroo mother care: A multi-country analysis of health system bottlenecks and potential solutions
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | September 2015
• Count every newborn; a measurement improvement roadmap for coverage data
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | September 2015
• Counting every stillbirth and neonatal death through mortality audit to improve quality of care for every pregnant woman and her baby
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | September 2015
• 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
• Attitudes and behaviours of maternal health care providers in interactions with clients: a systematic review
  Globalization and Health | August 2015
• Health Plans Should Consider Paying for Doula Services
  The American Journal of Managed Care | August 2015
• A questionnaire to measure women’s experiences with pregnancy, birth and postnatal care: instrument development and assessment following a national survey in Norway
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2015
• How women are treated during facility-based childbirth: development and validation of measurement tools in four countries – phase 1 formative research study protocol
  Reproductive Health | July 2015
• 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 2014
• 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
  AllAfrica | July 2015
• 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
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• Georgia Officials Seek Solutions to High Maternal Mortality Rates
  RH Reality Check | June 2015
• Africa: Women’s Healthcare Remains Poorer Than Men’s
  AllAfrica | June 2015
• 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
  New England Journal of Medicine | June 2015
• 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
  AllAfrica | May 2015
• When getting there is not enough: a nationwide cross-sectional study of 998 maternal deaths and 1451 near-misses in public tertiary hospitals in a low-income country
  BJOG | May 2015
• Improving Communication and Coordination of Complex Perinatal Patients
  American Journal of Maternal Child Nursing | May 2015
• 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
  BJOG | May 2015
• 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
• Abuse in South African maternity settings is a disgrace: Potential solutions to the problem
  South African Medical Journal | April 2015
• No Ceilings: The Full Participation Report
  Clinton Foundation and Gates Foundation | March 2015
• ‘Shunned’ by hospital, woman delivers in auto, child dies in Jaipur
  Times of India | April 2015
• The Quality of Clinical Maternal and Neonatal Healthcare – A Strategy for Identifying ‘Routine Care Signal Functions’
  PLOS ONE | April 2015
• A California woman will represent herself in court for forced episiotomy
  SheKnows | April 2015
• Exploring the prevalence of disrespect and abuse during childbirth in Kenya
  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
  Reproductive Health | April 2015
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  BMC International Health and Human Rights | April 2015
• Determinants of women’s satisfaction with maternal health care: a review of literature from developing countries
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | April 2015
• 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
  RH Reality Check | April 2015
• 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
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | March 2015
• Evaluating the Impact of the Community-Based Health Planning and Services Initiative on Uptake of Skilled Birth Care in Ghana
  PLOS ONE | March 2015
• What it’s like to be a midwife in one of the most remote parts of Vietnam
  PBS News Hour | March 2015
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  Daily Nation (Kenya) | March 2015
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  The Awl | March 2015
• Rural/Urban and Socioeconomic Differentials in Quality of Antenatal Care in Ghana
  PLOS|ONE | February 2015
• Despite anti-shackling law, pregnant prisoners say practice persists
  Aljazeera | March 2015
• Report: Gross Violations of Women’s Reproductive Rights in NY Prisons
  Nonprofit Quarterly | February 2015
• Expecting? The Process of Creating a Physiological Birth
  Huffington Post | February 2015
• Doulas, a Growing Force in Maternity Culture, Seek Greater Acceptance
  The New York Times | February 2015
• ‘The doctor used a hacksaw on me during labour’: Ireland’s women speak out
  The Telegraph | February 2015
• The challenges of providing obstetric care during an Ebola epidemic
  BJOG | January 2015
• Teaching Nurses How To Speak Up — And Speak Gently
  NPR | January 2015
• Safe water and basic sanitation would slash maternal deaths, report says
  The Guardian | December 2014
• 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?
  Guttmacher Institute | December 2014
• Eliminating preventable HIV-related maternal mortality in Sub-Saharan Africa: What do we need to know?
  Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes | December 2014
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  Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes | December 2014
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  Health Reporters | December 2014
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  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | December 2014
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• Poor water and hygiene ‘kills mothers and newborns’
  BBC | December 2014
• Forced Sterilization and Abortion: A Global Human Rights Problem
  amFAR | December 2014
• Kenyan women with HIV sue over sterilisation
  BBC | December 2014
• Indian sterilization clinics under scrutiny after doctor used bike pump on patients
  CNN | December 2014
• Web of Incentives in Fatal Indian Sterilizations
  The New York Times | November 2014
• Indian sterilisation patient: ‘I was slapped and told to calm down’
  The Guardian | November 2014
• Indian investigators suspect tainted drugs involved in botched sterilizations
  Washington Post | November 2014
• Experiences, utilisation and outcomes of maternity care in England among women from different socio-economic groups: findings from the 2010 National Maternity Survey
  BJOG | September 2014
• Doula Care in New York City: Advancing the Goals of the Affordable Care Act
  Choices in Childbirth | October 2014
• Experiences with perinatal death reviews in South Africa—the Perinatal Problem Identification Programme: scaling up from programme to province to country
  BJOG | September 2014
• Quality maternal and newborn care to ensure a healthy start for every newborn in the World Health Organization Western Pacific Region
  BJOG | September 2014
• Disrespectful and abusive treatment during facility delivery in Tanzania: a facility and community survey
  Health and Policy Planning | October 2014
• The Human Rights Council must urge States to address gender discrimination and accelerate efforts to address preventable maternal mortality and morbidity: Amnesty International written statement to the 27th regular session of the UN Human Rights Council
  Amnesty International | September 2014
• Facilitators and barriers to facility-based delivery in low- and middle-income countries: a qualitative evidence synthesis
  Reproductive Health | September 2014
• Defining disrespect and abuse of women in childbirth: a research, policy and rights agenda
  WHO | October 2014
• Approaches to improve Quality of Care (QoC) for women and newborns: conclusions, evidence gaps and research priorities
  Reproductive Health | September 2014
• Evidence from facility level inputs to improve quality of care for maternal and newborn health: interventions and findings
  Reproductive Health | September 2014
• Evidence from district level inputs to improve quality of care for maternal and newborn health: interventions and findings
  Reproductive Health | September 2014
• Approaches to improve the quality of maternal and newborn health care: an overview of the evidence
  Reproductive Health | September 2014
• Experiences of and responses to disrespectful maternity care and abuse during childbirth; a qualitative study with women and men in Morogoro Region, Tanzania
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2014
• Childbirth Complications: Some Hospitals Have 5 Times More, But Which Ones?
  WBUR | August 2014
• WHO Scope of Practice Recommendations for Maternal/Newborn Health Providers
  World Health Organization | 2012
• Quality of antenatal care in Zambia: a national assessment
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | December 2012
• Using scorecards to achieve facility improvements for maternal and newborn health
  IJGO | July 2014
• Country experience with strengthening of health systems and deployment of midwives in countries with high maternal mortality
  The Lancet | July 2014
• Midwifery and quality care: findings from a new evidence-informed framework for maternal and newborn care
  The Lancet | June 2014
• Disrespect and abuse of women in childbirth: challenging the global quality and accountability agendas
  The Lancet | June 2014
• Health-care professionals in midwifery care
  The Lancet | June 2014
• Meeting needs of childbearing women and newborn infants through strengthened midwifery
  The Lancet | June 2014
• The U.S. Is The Only Developed Nation With A Rising Maternal Mortality Rate
  Huffington Post | May 2014
• Disabled women׳s maternal and newborn health care in rural Nepal: A qualitative study
  IJGO | April 2014
• Immigrant and non-immigrant women's experiences of maternity care: a systematic and comparative review of studies in five countries
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | April 2014
• Infertility, Endured Through a Prism of Race
  The New York Times | April 2014
• Integrating family planning into postpartum care through modern quality improvement: experience from Afghanistan
  Global Health Science and Practice | April 2014
• Ethnic Variations in Severe Maternal Morbidity in the UK– A Case Control Study
  PLOS ONE | April 2014
• El Salvador: meet the women who dare to challenge the anti-abortion state
  The Guardian | April 2014
• Why Most Brazilian Women Get C-Sections
  The Atlantic | April 2014
• Refusals Cut Options After C-Sections – NYTimes.com
  The New York Times | April 2014
• The Effect of Maternal Helminth Infection on Maternal and Neonatal Immune Function and Immunity to Tuberculosis
  PLOS One | April 2014
• Assessing the quality of record keeping for cesarean deliveries: results from a multicenter retrospective record review in five low-income countries
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | April 2014
• Obstetric analgesia for vaginal birth in contemporary obstetrics: a survey of the practice of obstetricians in Nigeria
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | April 2014
• Unsafe surgery: a question of gender and economics
  The Lancet Global Health Blog | April 2014
• Health workers' perceptions of facilitators of and barriers to institutional delivery in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | April 2014
• Hospitals Safer Than Homes for Births
  The New York Times
• Birth Preparedness and Complication Readiness (BPCR) interventions to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality in developing countries: systematic review and meta-analysis
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | April 2014
• Bypassing primary care clinics for childbirth: a cross-sectional study in the Pwani region, United Republic of Tanzania
  Bulletin of the WHO | April 2014
• Reproductive rights and wrongs: how discrimination blights maternity care
  The Guardian | April 2014
• Risk Factors of Pre-Eclampsia/Eclampsia and Its Adverse Outcomes in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A WHO Secondary Analysis
  PLOS ONE | March 2014
• Pregnancy Differentially Impacts Performance of Latent Tuberculosis Diagnostics in a High-Burden Setting
  PLOS ONE | March 2014
• UK aid watchdog tells DfID to focus on quality of healthcare in Kenya
  The Guardian | March 2014
• Russia's looking to improve the quality of its maternity care — but it has a long way to go
  PRI | March 2014
• Factors associated with the use and quality of antenatal care in Nepal: a population-based study using the demographic and health survey data
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | March 2014
• Doctors Urge Patience, And Longer Labor, To Reduce C-Sections : Shots
  NPR | February 2014
• Irish midwives' experiences of providing maternity care to non-Iri
  International Journal of Women's Health | February 2014
• What Works? Strategies to Increase Reproductive, Maternal and Child Health in Difficult to Access Mountainous Locations: A Systematic Literature Review
  PLOS ONE | February 2014
• Female genital mutilation: I watched my sister die in childbirth (Video)
  The Guardian | February 2014
• A global research agenda for family planning: results of an exercise for setting research priorities
  Bulletin of the WHO | February 2014
• Adaptation and implementation of local maternity dashboards in a Zimbabwean hospital to drive clinical improvement
  Bulletin of the WHO | February 2014
• Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV services in Adama town, Ethiopia: clients' satisfaction and challenges experienced by service providers
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | February 2014
• Male involvement during pregnancy and childbirth: men's perceptions, practices and experiences during the care for women who developed childbirth complications in Mulago Hospital, Uganda
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | January 2014
• Women's perception of quality of maternity services: a longitudinal survey in Nepal
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | January 2014
• Giving cell phones to pregnant women and improving services may increase primary health facility utilization: a case¿control study of a Nigerian project
  Reproductive Health | January 2014
• Reducing Maternal Mortality in U.S., India & Worldwide Through Knowledge Sharing From the Frontlines | Impatient Optimists
  Impatient Optimists | January 2014
• American Public Health Association – Improving Maternal Health in Pakistan: Toward a Deeper Understanding of the Social Determinants of Poor Women’s Access to Maternal Health Services
  American Journal of Public Health | February 2014
• Barriers to using skilled birth attendants¿ services in mid- and far-western Nepal: a cross-sectional study
  BMC International Health and Human Rights | December 2013
• Maternal health still an issue – study
  New Vision (Uganda) | December 2013
• Worry as women left alone in labour
  BBC | December 2013
• Maternity services survey 2013
  Care Quality Commission | December 2013
• Do Strategies to Improve Quality of Maternal and Child Health Care in Lower and Middle Income Countries Lead to Improved Outcomes? A Review of the Evidence
  PLOS One | December 2013
• Long-Term Impact of Preterm Birth on Exercise Capacity in Healthy Young Men: A National Population-Based Cohort Study
  PLOS ONE | December 2013
• Maternal postpartum morbidity in Marrakech: what women feel what doctors diagnose?
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | December 2013
• Midwives' and women's views of childbirth in the Gaza Strip, occupied Palestinian territory: an exploratory study
  The Lancet | December 2013
• INTERVIEW: Emerging, Promising Interventions on Maternal Mortality & Improving Birth Outcomes
  CARMMA | November 2013
• Quality along the Continuum: A Health Facility Assessment of Intrapartum and Postnatal Care in Ghana
  
• A strategy for reducing maternal and newborn deaths by 2015 and beyond
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | November 2013
• Vaginal birth after caesarean section: a cohort study investigating factors associated with its uptake and success
  BJOG | November 2013
• Tanzania likely to fall short on its family planning targets
  IRIN | November 2013
• Zimbabwe: Maternity Fees Costing Lives
  The Standard | November 2013
• Women who abuse drugs while pregnant need doctor's compassion, not stigma
  Calgary Herald | November 2013
• Quality of care provided by mid-level health workers: systematic review and meta-analysis
  Bulletin of the WHO | November 2013
• Experiencing maternity care: the care received and perceptions of women from different ethnic groups
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | October 2013
• How Much Training Should Health Workers Have?
  Impatient Optimists | October 2013
• Preferences for home delivery in Ethiopia: Provider perspectives
  Global Public Health | October 2013
• Quality of antenatal care services at public health facilities of Bahir-Dar special zone, Northwest Ethiopia
  BMC Health Services Research | October 2013
• Pregnant indigenous Mexican women face hospital discrimination
  Los Angeles Times | October 2013
• It happened to me: I felt bullied while birthing
  xoJane | October 2013
• Discourse on safe delivery
  BDnews24 (Bangladesh) | September 2013
• Estimating the impact of interventions on cause-specific maternal mortality: A Delphi approach
  BMC Public Health | September 2013
• Removing financial barriers to access reproductive, maternal and newborn health services: the challenges and policy implications for human resources for health
  Human Resources for Health | September 2013
• Reducing Maternal Mortality Means Increasing Access to Care
  Huffington Post | September 2013
• Kenya: The Worst Possible Treatment
  Center for Reproductive Rights | September 2013
• Equity in Maternal Health in South Africa: Analysis of Health Service Access and Health Status in a National Household Survey
  PLOS ONE | September 2013
• What Is Free Maternity Care in Kenya Worth?
  Impatient Optimists | August 2013
• Quality of intrapartum care at Mulago national referral hospital, Uganda: clients' perspective
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2013
• Measuring the quality and quantity of professional intrapartum support: testing a computerised systematic observation tool in the clinical setting
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2013
• Obstetric Fistula in Burundi: a comprehensive approach to managing women with this neglected disease
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | August 2013
• Achieving better maternal and newborn outcomes: coherent strategy and pragmatic, tailored implementation
  Global Health Science and Practice | August 2013
• Why Are America’s Postpartum Practices So Rough on New Mothers?
  The Daily Beast | August 2013
• Whipps Cross hospital had 'systematic failings', finds NHS watchdog
  The Guardian | August 2013
• HIV-related stigma: Impact on healthcare workers in Vietnam
  Global Public Health | August 2013
• Community experiences and perceptions of reproductive health vouchers in Kenya
  BMC Public Health | July 2013
• Assessing Spatial Accessibility to Maternity Units in Shenzhen, China
  PLOS ONE | July 2013
• Respectful Care Is Quality Care
  Huffington Post | August 2012
• Perspective: A Culture of Respect, Part 1: The Nature and Causes of Disrespectful Behavior by Physicians
  Academic Medicine | July 2012
• Respect for Childbearing Women and Their Families
  Huffington Post | February 2012
• Facilitators and barriers in the humanization of childbirth practice in Japan
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | October 2010
• Women's Preferences for Place of Delivery in Rural Tanzania: A Population-Based Discrete Choice Experiment
  American Journal of Public Health | September 2009
• Quality of antenatal and childbirth care in selected rural health facilities in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania: similar finding
  Tropical Medicine & International Health | May 2013
• "Quality of prenatal and maternal care: bridging the know-do gap" (QUALMAT study): an electronic clinical decision support system for rural Sub-Saharan Africa
  BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making | April 2013
• Intrapartum care quality indicators: a systematic approach for achieving consensus
  European Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Reproductive Biology | January 2013
• Female inmates sterilized in California prisons without approval
  The Center for Investigative Reporting | July 2013
• Brazil’s Plan Isn’t What Doctors Would Order
  New York Times | July 2013
• Poor Quality of Care Chills Progress in Improving Safe Delivery for Mothers
  New Security Beat | July 2013
• Listening to Mothers SM III: Pregnancy and Birth
  Childbirth Connection | May 2013
• Listening to Mothers SM III: New Mothers Speak Out
  Childbirth Connection | June 2013
• Five Women, Five Stories: Birthing a New Vision for Maternity Care
  Impatient Optimists | June 2013
• Maternal Health in India: Where We Are Today
  Huffington Post | June 2013
• Measures of satisfaction with care during labour and birth: a comparative review
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | May 2013
• Measuring Coverage in MNCH: Validating Women’s Self-Report of Emergency Cesarean Sections in Ghana and the Dominican Republic
  PLOS One | May 2013
• UN hails midwives' contribution to maternal health around the world
  United Nations News Centre | May 2013
• Making Midwives’ Voices Heard
  Impatient Optimists | May 2013
• Maternity units shamed but not named in first-time study
  The Independent | May 2013
• The acceptability and feasibility of an intercultural birth center in the highlands of Chiapas, Mexico
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | April 2013
• Quality Indicators for Continuous Monitoring to Improve Maternal and Infant Health in Maternity Departments: A Modified Delphi Survey of an International Multidisciplinary Panel
  PLOS ONE | April 2013
• The everyday violence against pregnant women in India
  The Atlantic | February 2013
• Women in the World Meet Mothers in the World
  Daily Beast | April 2013
• Maternity care providers' perceptions of women's autonomy and the law
  BMC Pregnancy and Chilldbirth | April 2013
• Encountering abuse in health care; lifetime experiences in postnatal women – a qualitative study
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | March 2013
• Life’s Unequal Beginnings
  The New York Times | March 2013
• Pain management for women in labour: an overview of systematic reviews
  WHO Reproductive Health Library
• Women's experience with early labour management at home vs. in hospital: A randomised controlled trial
  Midwifery Journal
• Delivering at home or in a health facility? health-seeking behaviour of women and the role of traditional birth attendants in Tanzania
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | February 2013
• Head of household education level as a factor influencing whether delivery takes place in the presence of a skilled birth attendant in Busia, Uganda: a cross-sectional household study
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
• A manifesto for maternal health post-2015
  The Lancet | February 2013
• Women's lives put at risk in India by private healthcare providers
  The Guardian
• Malawi’s leader makes safe childbirth her mission
  NY Times | February 2013
• Preterm Birth – Interdisciplinary research from the Preterm Birth and Healthy Outcomes Team (PreHOT)
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | January 2013
• What contributes to abuse in health care? A grounded theory of female patients’ stories
  Journal of Nursing Studies | March 2013
• The Murri clinic: a comparative retrospective study of an antenatal clinic developed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
• State and socio-demographic group variation in out-of-pocket expenditure, borrowings and Janani Suraksha Yojana (JSY) programme use for birth deliveries in India
  BMC Public Health
• Addressing inequity to achieve the maternal and child health millennium development goals: looking beyond averages
  BMC Public Health
• Job Preferences of Nurses and Midwives for Taking Up a Rural Job in Peru: A Discrete Choice Experiment
  PLOS ONE
• President Joyce Banda: New Focus on Women’s Health and Empowerment in Malawi
  The CSIS Global Health Policy Center | January 2013
• Mexico Aims To Save Babies And Moms With Modern Midwifery
  WBUR & NPR
• Home visits offer window into mother, infant well-being
  Harvard School of Public Health | December 2012
• Improved quality of management of eclampsia patients through criteria based audit at Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. bridging the quality gap
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Geographical access to care at birth in Ghana: a barrier to safe motherhood
  BMC Public Health
• What influences the decision to undergo institutional delivery by skilled birth attendants? A cohort study in rural Andhra Pradesh, India
  The International Electronic Journal of Rural and Remote Health Research, Education, Practice, and Policy
• The Scale of Faith Based Organization Participation in Health Service Delivery in Developing Countries: Systemic Review and Meta-Analysis
  PLOS ONE
• New signal functions to measure the ability of health facilities to provide routine and emergency newborn care
  PLOS Medicine | November 2012
• Impact of Free Delivery Care on Health Facility Delivery and Insurance Coverage in Ghana’s Brong Ahafo Region
  PLOS ONE
• Access to facility delivery and caesarean section in north-central Liberia: a cross-sectional community-based study
  BMJ Open
• Health campaigners question whether fall in maternal mortality in India is a result of more hospital deliveries
  BMJ
• Validity and reliability of criterion based clinical audit to assess obstetrical quality of care in West Africa
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | October 2012
• An inflatable ergonomic 3-chamber fundal pressure belt to assist vaginal delivery
  International Journal of Gynecology and Obstetrics
• Increasing the Use of Skilled Health Personnel Where Traditional Birth Attendants Were Providers of Childbirth Care: A Systematic Review
  PLOS ONE
• Background Rates of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes for Assessing the Safety of Maternal Vaccine Trials in Sub-Saharan Africa
  PLoS ONE
• Maternal and perinatal outcomes by mode of delivery in Senegal and Mali: A cross-sectional epidemiological survey
  PLoS ONE
• Association of antenatal care with facility delivery and perinatal survival – a population-based study in Bangladesh
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | October 2012
• Institutional delivery service utilization in Munisa Woreda, South East Ethiopia: a community based cross-sectional study
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Nutritional status and dietary intake of urban residents in Gondar, Northwest Ethiopia
  BMC Public Health
• Beliefs and practices during pregnancy and childbirth in urban slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh
  BMC Public Health
• Trial of labor versus repeat cesarean: are patients making an informed decision?
  American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology
• The methodological challenges of attempting to compare the safety of home and hospital birth in terms of the risk of perinatal death
  Midwifery Journal
• Reasons rural Laotians choose home deliveries over delivery at health facilities: a qualitative study
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Prevalence of Malaria and Anemia among Pregnant Women Attending a Traditional Birth Home in Benin City, Nigeria
  Oman Medical Journal
• Relationship between Rewards and Nurses’ work Motivation in Addis Ababa Hospitals
  Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences
• Skilled Birth Attendants: Who is Who? A Descriptive Study of Definitions and Roles from Nine Sub Saharan African Countries
  PLoS One
• Missed Opportunities: Poor Linkage into Ongoing Care for HIV-Positive Pregnant Women in Mwanza, Tanzania
  PLoS One
• Mobile phones as a health communication tool to improve skilled attendance at delivery in Zanzibar: a cluster-randomised controlled trial
  BJOG
• Data quality assessment in healthcare: a 365-day chart review of inpatients' health records at a Nigerian tertiary hospital
  Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
• Trends and Disparities in Child Mortality in India
  Indian Pediatrics
• Implementation of Janani Suraksha Yojana and other maternal health policies in two Indian states: Predictors of maternal health service utilization among poor rural women
  University of Maryland | July 2012
• Post-partum pituitary insufficiency and livedo reticularis presenting a diagnostic challenge in a resource limited setting in Tanzania: a case report, clinical discussion and brief review of existing literature
  BMC Endocrine Disorders
• Cervical cancer awareness and preventive practices: a challenge for female urban slum dwellers in Lagos, Nigeria
  African Journal of Reproductive Health
• Time for action: audit, accountability and confidential enquiries into maternal deaths in Nigeria
  African Journal of Reproductive Health
• Assessing skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetric care in rural Tanzania: the inadequacy of using global standards and indicators to measure local realities
  Reproductive Health Matters
• Estimating coverage of a women’s group intervention among a population of pregnant women in rural Bangladesh
  BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth | July 2012
• Unwanted Pregnancy and Associated Factors among Pregnant Married Women in Hosanna Town, Southern Ethiopia
  PLoS One
• A Rapid Assessment of the Availability and Use of Obstetric Care in Nigerian Healthcare Facilities
  PLoS One
• Sterilization of women and girls with disabilities: A briefing paper
  Human Rights Watch | November 2011