Background: In spite of the introduction of free maternal healthcare in Ghana, utilization of
supervised delivery services continues to be low due partly to poor quality of antenatal care …

Purpose–To achieve Goal 5 of the MDGs, the Government of Ghana introduced the free
maternal health service system to break financial barriers of access to maternal care …

Many pregnant women in Africa who access professional antenatal care do not receive all
the WHO-recommended components of care. Using Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) …

Background Over the past two decades, antenatal care (ANC) coverage has increased in
most settings across low-and middle-income countries, including Ghana. However …

Abstract Background The International Safe Motherhood initiative provides a focus for
programmes and research to improve maternal health in low–income countries. Antenatal …

Background There is evidence that supervised delivery has the potential to improve birth
outcomes for both women and newborns. However, not all women especially in low-income …

Background: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study aimed at assessing antenatal care
service attendees' perception of quality of maternal healthcare (MHC) services in Anambra …

Introduction: User'sperception of quality of ANC services crucially impacts continuity of use
of these services and hence pregnancy outcome. However in our community, ANC user's …

Background Maternal and neonatal mortality remains high in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) with
women having 1 in 36 lifetime risk. The WHO launched the new comprehensive …

Background: With maternal mortality ratio of 2,000/100,000 live births and perinatal mortality
rate of 40/1,000 total births, Cross River State is one of the states with the highest maternal …