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Gurung, Rejina
Ruysen, Harriet
Sunny, Avinash K.
Day, Louise T.
Penn-Kekana, Loveday
Målqvist, Mats
Ghimire, Binda
Singh, Dela
Basnet, Omkar
Sharma, Srijana
Shaver, Theresa
Moran, Allisyn C.
Lawn, Joy E.
KC, Ashish
Article History
First Online: 26 March 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was granted ethical approval by institutional review boards in all operating counties in addition to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (Additional file ).Voluntary informed written consent was obtained from all observed participants, their families for newborns, and respondents for the qualitative interviews. Participants were assured of anonymity and confidentiality. All women were provided with a description of the study procedures in their preferred language at admission, and offered the right to refuse, or withdraw consent at any time during the study.EN-BIRTH is study number 4833, registered at .NePeriQIP is registered in ISRCTN as .
: Non-applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.