About the Authors
- Thomas van den Akker
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* E-mail: thomas_vd_akker@hotmail.com
Affiliations Thyolo District Health Office, Ministry of Health, Thyolo, Malawi, Department of Medical Humanities, EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Working Party on International Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health, Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Netherlands Society of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Jogchum Beltman
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Affiliations Thyolo District Health Office, Ministry of Health, Thyolo, Malawi, Working Party on International Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health, Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Netherlands Society of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Obstetrics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Joey Leyten
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Affiliation Department of Obstetrics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Beatrice Mwagomba
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Affiliation Thyolo District Health Office, Ministry of Health, Thyolo, Malawi
- Tarek Meguid
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Affiliations Working Party on International Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health, Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Netherlands Society of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Utrecht, The Netherlands, School of Law and Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Bottom Hospital, Lilongwe, Malawi
- Jelle Stekelenburg
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Affiliations Working Party on International Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health, Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Netherlands Society of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Leeuwarden Medical Centre, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands
- Jos van Roosmalen
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Affiliations Department of Medical Humanities, EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Working Party on International Safe Motherhood and Reproductive Health, Dutch Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Netherlands Society of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Department of Obstetrics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
supervision and general oversight: BM. Conceived and designed the experiments: TvdA JvR. Performed the experiments: TvdA JL JB TM JS. Analyzed the data: TvdA JL JB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BM. Wrote the paper: TvdA JS JvR.