Background Labour companionship refers to support provided to a woman during labour
and childbirth, and may be provided by a partner, family member, friend, doula or healthcare …

Background In the past decade, the negative impact of disrespectful maternity care on
women's utilisation and experiences of facility-based delivery has been well documented …

Background Women across the world are mistreated during childbirth. We aimed to develop
and implement evidence-informed, validated tools to measure mistreatment during …

Background Several qualitative studies have described disrespectful, abusive, and
neglectful treatment of women during facility-based childbirth, but few studies document the …

Background Abuse against women in labor starts with subtle forms of discrimination that can
turn into overt violence. Therefore it is crucial to work towards prevention and elimination of …

Background Few evidencebased interventions exist on how to improve respectful maternity
care (RMC) in lowresource settings. We sought to evaluate the effect of an integrated …

Background Evidence suggests that many women experience mistreatment during childbirth
in health facilities across the world, but the magnitude of the problem is unknown. The …

Respectful maternity care is “… organized for and provided to all women in a manner that
maintains their dignity, privacy and confidentiality, ensures freedom from harm and …

Objective To explore the experiences of accessing and receiving healthcare related to
female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) across the life course from the perspective of …

Objective Disrespectful and abusive behavior during childbirth and maternity care is
violation of fundamental right of women and unborn child. There is scarce of data on …