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Saving Mothers, Giving Life: It Takes a System to Save a Mother (Republication)

Claudia Morrissey Conlon, Florina Serbanescu, Lawrence Marum, Jessica Healey, Jonathan LaBrecque, Reeti Hobson, Marta Levitt, Adeodata Kekitiinwa, Brenda Picho, Fatma Soud, Lauren Spigel, Mona Steffen, Jorge Velasco, Robert Cohen and William Weiss on behalf of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life Working Group
Global Health: Science and Practice March 2019, 7(1):20-40; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-19-00092
Claudia Morrissey Conlon
aBureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, USA.
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  • For correspondence: Cconlon{at}usaid.gov
Florina Serbanescu
bDivision of Reproductive Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Lawrence Marum
cCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Lusaka, Zambia. Now retired.
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Jessica Healey
dU.S. Agency for International Development, Lusaka, Zambia. Now based in Monrovia, Liberia.
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Jonathan LaBrecque
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Reeti Hobson
eBureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC. Now with ICF, Rockville, MD, USA.
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Marta Levitt
fBureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development and RTI, Washington, DC, USA. Now with Palladium, Abuja, Nigeria.
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Adeodata Kekitiinwa
gBaylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation-Uganda, Kampala, Uganda.
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Brenda Picho
hInfectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
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Fatma Soud
iCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Lusaka, Zambia. Now an independent consultant, Gainesville, FL, USA.
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Lauren Spigel
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Mona Steffen
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Jorge Velasco
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Robert Cohen
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William Weiss
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vol. 7 no. 1 20-40
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-19-00092
PubMed 
30926736

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Global Health: Science and Practice
Online ISSN 
2169-575X
History 
  • Received: October 31, 2018
  • Accepted: December 11, 2018
  • Published online March 29, 2019.

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© Conlon et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly cited. To view a copy of the license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. When linking to this article, please use the following permanent link: https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-19-00092

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  1. Claudia Morrissey Conlona⇑,
  2. Florina Serbanescub,
  3. Lawrence Marumc,
  4. Jessica Healeyd,
  5. Jonathan LaBrecquea,
  6. Reeti Hobsone,
  7. Marta Levittf,
  8. Adeodata Kekitiinwag,
  9. Brenda Pichoh,
  10. Fatma Soudi,
  11. Lauren Spigelj,
  12. Mona Steffene,
  13. Jorge Velascok,
  14. Robert Cohena,
  15. William Weissa
  16. on behalf of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life Working Group
  1. aBureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, USA.
  2. bDivision of Reproductive Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  3. cCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Lusaka, Zambia. Now retired.
  4. dU.S. Agency for International Development, Lusaka, Zambia. Now based in Monrovia, Liberia.
  5. eBureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC. Now with ICF, Rockville, MD, USA.
  6. fBureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development and RTI, Washington, DC, USA. Now with Palladium, Abuja, Nigeria.
  7. gBaylor College of Medicine Children's Foundation-Uganda, Kampala, Uganda.
  8. hInfectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
  9. iCenters for Disease Control and Prevention, Lusaka, Zambia. Now an independent consultant, Gainesville, FL, USA.
  10. jICF, Fairfax, VA, USA. Now with Ariadne Labs, Boston, MA, USA.
  11. kU.S. Agency for International Development, Papua, New Guinea.
  1. Correspondence to Claudia Morrissey Conlon (Cconlon{at}usaid.gov).
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