Background Nearly 15% of pregnancies end in fatal perinatal obstetric complications
including bleeding, infections, hypertension, obstructed labour and complications of …

Abstract Background Since 2000, the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, which
included a goal to improve maternal health by the end of 2015, has facilitated significant …

Background In many low‐and middle‐income countries women are encouraged to give birth
in clinics and hospitals so that they can receive care from skilled birth attendants. A skilled …

Low-and middle-income countries have been undertaking health finance reforms to address
shortages of medicines. However, data are lacking on how medicine availability and stock …

Objective This study used a nationally representative sample from Tanzania as an example
of low-resource setting with a high burden of maternal and newborn deaths, to assess the …

After two long days on the bus, I arrived in Sumbawanga in the beginning of February 2014,
the rainy season well underway. The next day, I reported to the Mawingu Regional Hospital …

Background The consequences of delays in travel of pregnant women to reach facilities in
emergency situations are well documented in literature. However, their decision-making and …

Background Life-threatening obstetric complications usually lead to the need for referral and
constitute the commonest direct causes of maternal deaths. Urgent management of referrals …

Limited quality of childbirth care in sub-Saharan Africa primarily affects the poor. Greater
quality is available in facilities providing advanced management of childbirth complications …

Previous efforts to estimate the travel time to comprehensive emergency obstetric care
(CEmOC) in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs) have either been based on spatial …