Submissions from 2018
"Poverty is the big thing": Exploring financial, transportation, and opportunity costs associated with fistula management and repair in Nigeria and Uganda, Kaji Tamanna Keya, Pooja Sripad, Emmanuel Nwala, and Charlotte E. Warren
Obstetric complications and delays in seeking emergency care in poor settings of northern India, Nizamuddin Khan
Intensity of contact with frontline workers and its influence on maternal and newborn health behaviors: Cross-sectional survey in rural Uttar Pradesh, India, Tanica Lyngdoh, Sutapa B. Neogi, Danish Ahmad, Srinivasan Soundararajan, and Dileep V. Mavalankar
Women’s recall of maternal and newborn interventions received in the postnatal period: A validity study in Kenya and Swaziland, Katharine McCarthy, Ann K. Blanc, Charlotte E. Warren, and Brian Mdawida
Increasing knowledge of home based maternal and newborn care using self-help groups: Evidence from rural Uttar Pradesh, India, Arupendra Mozumdar, M.E. Khan, Subrato Mondal, and P.S. Mohanan
Retrospective cohort study: Clinical presentation and outcomes of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia at Kenyatta National Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya, Charity Ndwiga, Alfred Osoti, Pooja Sripad, George Odwe, Omondi Ogutu, and Charlotte E. Warren
Addressing barriers to quality of underutilized commodities and services for prevention and management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Kenya, Charity Ndwiga, Pooja Sripad, and Charlotte E. Warren
Assessing the community-level impact of a decade of user fee policy shifts on health facility deliveries in Kenya, 2003-2014, Francis Obare, Timothy Abuya, Dennis Matanda, and Benjamin Bellows
The rationale and relevance of existing cadres of frontline health workers and potential for new mid-level cadres, Oladimeji Oladepo, Ekechi Okereke, and Akinwumi Akinola
Maternal health services utilisation: Has the rich-poor gap declined?, Sohini Paul
Baseline evaluation of Project Mesha in Bihar: Factsheet results 2017-2018, Population Council
Perceived social networks and newborn health: Evidence from self-help group communities in northern India, Jenny Ruducha, Xinran Huang, James Potter, Divya Hariharan, Danish Ahmad, Sampath Kumar, P.S. Mohanan, and Avishek Hazra
Effect of health intervention integration within women's self-help groups on collectivization and healthy practices around reproductive, maternal, neonatal and child health in rural India, Niranjan Saggurti, Yamini Atmavilas, Akash Porwal, Janine Schooley, Rajshree Das, Narender Kande, Laili Irani, and Katherine Hay
Dataset: Evaluating the impact of the Parivartan project in improving maternal and child health behaviors among women in self-help groups in Bihar, Niranjan Saggurti and Laili Irani
Exploring barriers and opportunities for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia prevention and management in Ethiopia, Pooja Sripad, Hussein Ismail, Amy Dempsey, Karen Kirk, and Charlotte E. Warren
Reducing barriers to accessing fistula repair: Implementation research in Ebonyi, Pooja Sripad, Emmanuel Nwala, and Vandana Tripathi
Reducing barriers to accessing fistula repair: Implementation research in Katsina, Pooja Sripad, Emmanuel Nwala, and Vandana Tripathi
Exploring meaning and types of trust in maternity care in peri-urban Kenya: A qualitative cross-perspective analysis, Pooja Sripad, Sachiko Ozawa, Maria W. Merritt, Larissa Jennings, Deanna Kerrigan, Charity Ndwiga, Timothy Abuya, and Charlotte E. Warren
The influence of maternal and household resources, and parental psychosocial child stimulation on early childhood development: A cross-sectional study of children 36–59 months in Honduras, Helga Bjørnøy Urke, Mariela Contreras, and Dennis Matanda
Ending Eclampsia: PHC PH/E_plus Model, Charlotte E. Warren
“Sickness of shame”: Investigating challenges and resilience among women living with obstetric fistula in Kenya, Charlotte E. Warren, Pooja Sripad, Annie Mwangi, Charity Ndwiga, Wilson Liambila, and Benjamin Bellows
Ambivalence in pregnancy intentions: The effect of quality of care and context among a cohort of women attending family planning clinics in Kenya, Eliud Wekesa, Ian Askew, and Timothy Abuya
Submissions from 2017
Enhancing frontline health workers' abilities to improve MNCH services in Bauchi State through task shifting/sharing, Sylvia Adebajo, Ekechi Okereke, and Friday Joseph
Enhancing frontline health workers' abilities to improve MNCH services in Cross River State through task shifting/sharing, Sylvia Adebajo, Ekechi Okereke, and Friday Joseph
Care-seeking behaviors for maternal and newborn illnesses among self-help group households in Uttar Pradesh, India, Kumudha Aruldas, Aastha Kant, and P.S. Mohanan
Barriers to obstetric fistula treatment in low-income countries: A systematic review, Zoe Baker, Benjamin Bellows, Rachel Bach, and Charlotte E. Warren
Activity spotlight: Zika prevention, Breakthrough RESEARCH
Charity: A health volunteer success story, Amy Dempsey
Florence: A midwife success story, Amy Dempsey
Results from systematic literature review on PE/E in Nigeria, Amy Dempsey and Karen Kirk
Association of antenatal care and place of delivery with newborn care practices: Evidence from a cross-sectional survey in rural Uttar Pradesh, India, Niveditha Devasenapathy, Sutapa B. Neogi, Srinivasan Soundararajan, Danish Ahmad, Avishek Hazra, Jaleel Ahmad, Neelakshi Mann, and Dileep V. Mavalankar
Married young women and girls' family planning and maternal heath preferences and use in Ethiopia, Aparna Jain, Elizabeth Tobey, Hussein Ismail, and Annabel Erulkar
A systematic review of the treatment and management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Bangladesh, Karen Kirk and Amy Dempsey
Results from systematic literature review on PE/E in Bangladesh, Karen Kirk and Amy Dempsey
Identifying inequities in maternal and child health through risk stratification to inform health systems strengthening in Northern Togo, Katharine McCarthy, Sandra Braganza, Kevin Fiori, Christophe Gbeleou, Vivien Kpakpo, Andrew Lopez, Jennifer Schechter, Alicia Singham Goodwin, and Heidi E. Jones
Health care providers' perspectives regarding the use of chlorhexidine gel for cord care in neonates in rural Kenya: Implications for scale-up, Angela Muriuki, Francis Obare, Bill Ayieko, Dennis Matanda, Kenneth Sisimwo, and Brian Mdawida
Exploring provider perspectives on respectful maternity care in Kenya: “Work with what you have”, Charity Ndwiga, Charlotte E. Warren, Julie Ritter, Pooja Sripad, and Timothy Abuya
Access to reproductive health and HIV services among young mothers in Tanzania, Francis Obare, Annette Almeida, George Odwe, Jamilla Mwanga, Chi-Chi Undie, Maurice Hiza, and Feddy Mwanga
Correlates of home and hospital delivery in Pakistan, Zainab Parveen, Maqsood Sadiq, Faisal Abbas, and Rafi Amir-ud-Din
Assessing community midwives' knowledge of PE/E management in Sindh, Pakistan, Population Council
Landscape analysis: Preventing and managing pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Pakistan, Population Council
Measuring disrespect and abuse to promote respectful maternity care, Population Council
Reducing barriers to accessing fistula repair: Establishing a baseline in Ebonyi, Population Council
Reducing barriers to accessing fistula repair: Establishing a baseline in Katsina, Population Council
Reducing barriers to accessing fistula repair: Establishing a baseline in Uganda, Population Council
Risk factors for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Belize, Population Council
Risk factors for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Cambodia, Population Council
Risk factors for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Guatemala, Population Council
Risk factors for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Nepal, Population Council
Status of sexual and reproductive health and rights in Zambia: Contraception and family planning, preventing unsafe abortion and accessing post abortion care, and maternal health, Population Council
Evaluating community-facility linkage models to promote mother-infant retention along the HIV care continuum, Project SOAR
Dataset: Evidence for causal links between education and maternal and child health, sexual and reproductive health, and malaria: A systematic review (materials), Stephanie Psaki, Barbara Mensch, Andrea J. Melnikas, and Erica Chuang
Associations between mistreatment by a provider during childbirth and maternal health complications in Uttar Pradesh, India, Anita Raj, Arnab Dey, Sabrina Boyce, Aparna Seth, Siddhartha Bora, Dharmendra Chandurkar, Katherine Hay, Kultar Singh, Arup Das, Amit Chakraverty, Aparajita Ramakrishnan, Mrunal Shetye, Niranjan Saggurti, and Jay G. Silverman
Increasing access to reproductive health care through improved service delivery, Gul Rashida, Iram Kamran, Muhammad Khalil, Zeba Tasneem, Rehan M. Niazi, Mumraiz Khan, and Tahira Parveen
Knowledge and provision of misoprostol among pharmacy workers in Senegal: A cross sectional study, Kate Reiss, Katharine Footman, Eva Burke, Nafissatou Diop, Ramatoulaye Ndao, Babacar Mane, Maaike Van Min, and Thoai Ngo
Methods used in prevalence studies of disrespect and abuse during facility based childbirth: Lessons learned, David Sando, Timothy Abuya, Anteneh Asefa, Kathleen P. Banks, Lynn P. Freedman, Stephanie Kujawski, Amanda Markovitz, Charity Ndwiga, Kate Ramsey, Hannah Ratcliffe, Emmanuel O. Ugwu, Charlotte E. Warren, and R. Rima Jolivet
Differential effects of community health worker visits across social and economic groups in Uttar Pradesh, India: A link between social inequities and health disparities, Aparna Seth, Shweta Tomar, Kultar Singh, Dharmendra Chandurkar, Amit Chakraverty, Arnab Dey, Arup Das, Katherine Hay, Niranjan Saggurti, Sabrina Boyce, Anita Raj, and Jay G. Silverman
Sibling and family-level clustering of underweight children in northern India, Abhishek Singh, P. Arokiasamy, Jalandhar Pradhan, Kshipra Jain, and Sangram Kishor Patel
Gender differentials in feeding practices, health care utilization and nutritional status of children in Northern India, Abhishek Singh and Sangram Kishor Patel
Exploring the association between FGM/C and fistula: A review of the evidence, Pooja Sripad, Charity Ndwiga, and Kaji Tamanna Keya
Knowledge and practices for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia care in Bangladesh, Kanij Sultana and Amy Dempsey
Knowledge of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Bangladesh, Kanij Sultana and Amy Dempsey
Life-saving medicines and equipment in facilities in Bangladesh, Kanij Sultana and Amy Dempsey
Policies for pre-eclampsia and eclampsia prevention and management in Bangladesh, Kanij Sultana and Amy Dempsey
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, Charlotte E. Warren, Charity Ndwiga, Pooja Sripad, Melissa Medich, Anne Njeru, Alice Maranga, George Odhiambo, and Timothy Abuya
Manifestations and drivers of mistreatment of women during childbirth in Kenya: Implications for measurement and developing interventions, Charlotte E. Warren, Rebecca Njue, Charity Ndwiga, and Timothy Abuya
Submissions from 2016
Reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health: Key messages from Disease Control Priorities 3rd Edition, Robert Black, Carol Levin, Neff Walker, Doris Chou, Li Liu, Marleen Temmerman, and Karen Hardee
Measuring progress in maternal and newborn health care in Mexico: Validating indicators of health system contact and quality of care, Ann K. Blanc, Claudia Diaz, Katharine McCarthy, and Karla Berdichevsky
Assessing the validity of indicators of the quality of maternal and newborn health care in Kenya, Ann K. Blanc, Charlotte E. Warren, Katharine McCarthy, James Kelly Kimani, Charity Ndwiga, and Saumya RamaRao
Senegal: The impact of a study on misoprostol use and knowledge among pharmacists, Eva Burke, E. Robinson, Nafissatou Diop, Kate Reiss, Katharine Footman, Maaike Van Min, Barbara Reichwein, and Ian Askew
Antiretroviral treatment for pregnant women living with HIV: A summary of issues, interventions, and evidence, Jill Gay, Melanie Croce-Galis, Karen Hardee, and Mackenzie Kacmarcik
Family, community, and health system considerations for reducing the burden of pediatric sickle cell disease in Uganda through newborn screening, Nancy S. Green, Sanyukta Mathur, Sarah Kiguli, Julie Makani, Victoria Fashakan, Philip LaRussa, Magdalena Lyimo, Elaine J. Abrams, Lukia Mulumba, and Ezekiel Mupere
Measuring and monitoring quality of care in family planning: Are we ignoring negative experiences?, Shannon Harris, Laura Reichenbach, and Karen Hardee
Obstetric knowledge of nurse-educators in Nigeria: Levels, regional differentials and their implications for maternal health delivery, Salisu Mohammed Ishaku, Babatunde A.O. Ahonsi, Ayodeji Oginni, Jamilu Tukur, and Gloria Adoyi
A systematic review of the treatment and management of pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Nigeria, Karen Kirk and Ishita Chattopadhyay
Changes in optimal childcare practices in Kenya: Insights from the 2003, 2008-9 and 2014 demographic and health surveys, Dennis Matanda, Helga Bjørnøy Urke, and Maurice B. Mittelmark
Can surveys of women accurately track indicators of maternal and newborn care? A validity and reliability study in Kenya, Katharine McCarthy, Ann K. Blanc, Charlotte E. Warren, James Kelly Kimani, Brian Mdawida, and Charity Ndwiga
Using the community informant based (Made-in and Made-for) methodology for estimating maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ali M. Mir, Saleem Shaikh, Mumraiz Khan, and Irfan Masood
Landscape analysis report on pre-eclampsia and eclampsia in Pakistan, Ali M. Mir, Saleem Shaikh, Mumraiz Khan, Irfan Masood, Karen Kirk, Amy Dempsey, and Charlotte E. Warren
Using the community informant-based (MADE-IN and MADE-FOR) methodology to estimate the neonatal mortality rate (NMR) in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: A feasibility study, Ali M. Mir, Saleem Shaikh, Mumraiz Khan, Irfan Masood, Mansoor Qaisar, Sabahat Hussain, and Rehan M. Niazi
Factors contributing to maternal mortality in relatively resource-endowed urban contexts of developing countries: The case of Nairobi, Kenya, Francis Obare, Wilson Liambila, Dan Okoro, Robert Ayisi, and Sam Ochola
Increased coverage of maternal health services among the poor in western Uganda in an output-based aid voucher scheme, Francis Obare, Peter Okwero, Leslie Villegas, Samuel Mills, and Benjamin Bellows
Assessing maternal and newborn health commodities in Bangladesh, Population Council
Barriers to fistula repair in Nigeria: A formative study, Population Council
Barriers to fistula repair in Uganda: A formative study, Population Council
Delivering contraceptive vaginal rings to breastfeeding women, Population Council
Findings from landscape analysis in Bangladesh on pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, Population Council
Findings from landscape analysis in Bauchi on pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, Population Council
Findings from landscape analysis in Cross River on pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, Population Council
Findings from landscape analysis in Ebonyi on pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, Population Council
Findings from landscape analysis in Katsina on pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, Population Council
Findings from landscape analysis in Kogi on pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, Population Council
Findings from landscape analysis in Nigeria on pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, Population Council
Findings from landscape analysis in Ondo on pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, Population Council
Findings from landscape analysis in Sokoto on pre-eclampsia/eclampsia, Population Council
Increasing access to magnesium sulphate in Nigeria, Population Council
Landscape analysis of the family planning situation in Pakistan—District profile: Faisalabad, Population Council
Landscape analysis of the family planning situation in Pakistan—District profile: Peshawar, Population Council
Landscape analysis of the family planning situation in Pakistan—District profile: Sukkur, Population Council