Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Campinas, Campinas, and the Department of Social Medicine, Ribeirao Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan; the Maternal & Child Morbidity & Mortality Surveillance Unit, Family Health Bureau, Ministry of Health, Colombo, Sri Lanka; the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya; and the Department of Reproductive Health Research from the World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.
Corresponding author: José G. Cecatti, PhD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Campinas, Rua Alexander Fleming, 101, Campinas, Brazil 13084881; e-mail: [email protected].
Supported by the United Nations Development Programme/UNFPA/UNICEF/World Health Organization/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, World Health Organization, U.S. Agency for International Development, the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare of Japan, and Gynuity Health Projects. Specifically for this analysis we received a grant from the University of Campinas (Faepex, grant 11014). They played no other role nor influenced data analysis, interpretation of results and writing the manuscript.
Financial Disclosure The authors did not report any potential conflicts of interest.
The authors thank all members of the WHO Multicountry Survey on Maternal and Newborn Health Research Network, including regional and country coordinators, facility coordinators, data collectors, and all staff of the participating facilities who made the survey possible.
