Ansari, Nasratullah https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1322-5968
Maruf, Farzana
Manalai, Partamin
Currie, Sheena
Soroush, Mohammad Samim
Amin, Sher Shah
Higgins-Steele, Ariel
Kim, Young Mi
Stekelenburg, Jelle
van Roosmalen, Jos
Tappis, Hannah
Funding for this research was provided by:
United States Agency for International Development (HEMAYAT)
Article History
Received: 3 October 2018
Accepted: 20 May 2020
First Online: 2 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The 2016 Afghanistan National Maternal and Newborn Health Quality of Care Assessment protocol was approved by the ethical review boards of the Afghanistan MoPH (IRB # 361533) and John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland (IRB # 6799). Written permission for data collection was obtained from facility directors, and oral informed consent was obtained from all participating health care providers and clients (or a client’s next of kin if women were too ill to provide informed consent directly).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.