“…In low-resource settings, cost, distance, and the time needed to access care are major barriers for effective uptake of antenatal and particularly intrapartum services. A number of innovative strategies to surmount cost, distance, and time barriers to accessing care were identified and evaluated; one of these strategies is the maternity waiting homes (MWHs), but few studies have reported or evaluated the impact of the wide scale implementation of the strategy. …”
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