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Santana, Danielly S.
Silveira, Carla
Costa, Maria L.
Souza, Renato T.
Surita, Fernanda G.
Souza, João P.
Mazhar, Syeda Batool
Jayaratne, Kapila
Qureshi, Zahida
Sousa, Maria H.
Vogel, Joshua P.
Cecatti, José G. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1285-8445
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wordl Health Organization
Article History
Received: 16 April 2018
Accepted: 2 November 2018
First Online: 20 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the WHO Ethical Review Committee and by relevant Institutional Review Boards in participating countries and institutions. The WHOMCS was a study of anonymized data, extracted from medical records (with no contact with women) and therefore individual consent was not required.
: Not applicable.
: Prof. Fernanda G Surita is an Associate Editor of BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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