Santana, Danielly S.
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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. http://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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