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The Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of a District-Strengthening Strategy to Mitigate the 3 Delays to Quality Maternal Health Care: Results From Uganda and Zambia

Benjamin Johns, Peter Hangoma, Lynn Atuyambe, Sophie Faye, Mark Tumwine, Collen Zulu, Marta Levitt, Tannia Tembo, Jessica Healey, Rui Li, Christine Mugasha, Florina Serbanescu and Claudia Morrissey Conlon on behalf of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life Working Group
Global Health: Science and Practice March 2019, 7(Supplement 1):S104-S122; https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00429
Benjamin Johns
aInternational Development Division, Abt Associates Inc., Bethesda, MD, USA.
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Peter Hangoma
bDepartment of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
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Lynn Atuyambe
cDepartment of Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
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Sophie Faye
aInternational Development Division, Abt Associates Inc., Bethesda, MD, USA.
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Mark Tumwine
dUganda Country Office, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Entebbe, Uganda.
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Collen Zulu
eU.S. Agency for International Development, Lusaka, Zambia.
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Marta Levitt
fBureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, USA, and RTI, Washington, DC, USA. Now with Palladium, Abuja, Nigeria.
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Tannia Tembo
gCentre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
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Jessica Healey
hU.S. Agency for International Development, Lusaka, Zambia. Now based in Monrovia, Liberia.
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Rui Li
iDivision of Reproductive Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Christine Mugasha
jU.S. Agency for International Development, Kampala, Uganda.
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Florina Serbanescu
iDivision of Reproductive Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Claudia Morrissey Conlon
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vol. 7 no. Supplement 1 S104-S122
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.9745/GHSP-D-18-00429
PubMed 
30867212

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Online ISSN 
2169-575X
History 
  • Received: August 21, 2018
  • Accepted: January 27, 2019
  • Published online March 13, 2019.

Copyright & Usage 
© Johns 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-18-00429

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  1. Benjamin Johnsa⇑,
  2. Peter Hangomab,
  3. Lynn Atuyambec,
  4. Sophie Fayea,
  5. Mark Tumwined,
  6. Collen Zulue,
  7. Marta Levittf,
  8. Tannia Tembog,
  9. Jessica Healeyh,
  10. Rui Lii,
  11. Christine Mugashaj,
  12. Florina Serbanescui,
  13. Claudia Morrissey Conlonk
  14. on behalf of the Saving Mothers, Giving Life Working Group
  1. aInternational Development Division, Abt Associates Inc., Bethesda, MD, USA.
  2. bDepartment of Health Policy and Management, School of Public Health, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
  3. cDepartment of Community Health and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
  4. dUganda Country Office, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Entebbe, Uganda.
  5. eU.S. Agency for International Development, Lusaka, Zambia.
  6. fBureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC, USA, and RTI, Washington, DC, USA. Now with Palladium, Abuja, Nigeria.
  7. gCentre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia.
  8. hU.S. Agency for International Development, Lusaka, Zambia. Now based in Monrovia, Liberia.
  9. iDivision of Reproductive Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
  10. jU.S. Agency for International Development, Kampala, Uganda.
  11. kBureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development, Washington, DC.
  1. Correspondence to Benjamin Johns (ben_johns{at}abtassoc.com).
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