Ansari, Nasratullah http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1322-5968
Manalai, Partamin
Maruf, Farzana
Currie, Sheena
Stekelenburg, Jelle
van Roosmalen, Jos
Kim, Young-Mi
Tappis, Hannah
Funding for this research was provided by:
United States Agency for International Development (HEMAYAT-Afghanistan)
Article History
Received: 27 July 2018
Accepted: 11 December 2018
First Online: 18 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The 2016 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 women (or a woman’s next of kin if they were too ill to provide informed consent themselves).
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