Background Uganda's poor maternal health indicators have resulted from weak maternal
health services delivery, including access to quality family planning, skilled birth attendance …

Background The poor maintenance of equipment and inadequate supplies of drugs and
other items contribute to the low quality of maternity services often found in rural settings in …

Antenatal care is essential to improve maternal and newborn health and wellbeing. The
majority of pregnant women in Tanzania attend at least one visit. Since implementation of …

Background The potential of antenatal care for reducing maternal morbidity and improving
newborn survival and health is widely acknowledged. Yet there are worrying gaps in …

Background Antenatal care (ANC) provides an important opportunity for pregnant women
with a wide range of interventions and is considered as an important basic component of …

Introduction More efforts need to be directed to improving the quality of maternal health in
developing countries if we are to keep on track with meeting the fifth millennium …

Background Maternal health care provision remains a major challenge in developing
countries. There is agreement that the provision of quality clinical services is essential if high …

Objective To assess health workers' compliance with the procedures set in the focused
antenatal care (ANC) guidelines in rural Uganda, Tanzania and Burkina Faso; to compare …

Objectives To measure pre‐intervention quality of routine antenatal and childbirth care in
rural districts of Burkina Faso, Ghana and Tanzania and to identify shortcomings. Methods In …

In Tanzania, maternal mortality has stagnated over the last 10 years, and some of the areas
with the worst indicators are in the Lake and Western Zones. This study investigates the …