Acknowledgments
ASMAN program is designed, executed, and funded by 5 development partners-, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, MSD for Mothers, Reliance Foundation, Tata Trusts, and USAID. We sincerely thank the Project Management Unit, involved in driving the program interventions and both state governments for their continuous support and suggestions. We would also like to acknowledge the support provided by the implementing partners – Avalon, Sambodhi and Bodhi, without whom this project and the study would not have been possible. We would like to acknowledge Young Mi Kim and Rachel Haws for reviewing the manuscript and providing valuable suggestions. We also thank the reviewers of this manuscript who helped to improve it with their comments and suggestions.
Funding
The program was designed, supported and funded by the Alliance for Saving Mothers and Newborns (ASMAN), with support from the Reliance Foundation, Tata Trusts, MSD* for Mothers, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
*- This program was funded by, developed with and is being implemented in collaboration with MSD for Mothers, MSD’s $500 million initiative to help create a world where no woman has to die while giving life. MSD for Mothers is an initiative of Merck & Co., Inc., Kenilworth, NJ, U.S.A.
Affiliations
Jhpiego - an affiliate of Johns Hopkins University, India
Gulnoza Usmanova, Kamlesh Lalchandani, Ashish Srivastava, Chandra Shekhar Joshi, Deepak Bhatt, Anand Kumar Bairagi, Yashpal Jain, Mohammed Afzal, Rashmi Dhoundiyal, Jyoti Benawari, Bulbul Sood
Maternal Health, Department of Health and Family Welfare, NHM, Rajasthan, India
Tarun Chaudhary
Maternal Health, NHM, Madhya Pradesh, India
Archana Mishra
Project Management Unit, ASMAN: Alliance for Saving Mothers and Newborns, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Rajni Wadhwa
MSD For Mothers - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Pompy Sridhar
Reliance Foundation- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Nupur Bahl
Tata Trusts - - Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Pratibha Gaikwad
Contributions
RW, PS, NB, PG, BS, KL, GU, TC, AM, BS conceptualization of project. GU, KL, BS leading manuscript drafting. GU, AS, DB, AB, CSJ drafting study protocol, development of tools, manuscript drafting. YJ, MA, JB overseeing project implementation, development of tools, drafting manuscript. AS, DB, CSJ, AB data compilation, cleaning, analysis. GU, KL, BS, RW, PS, NB, PG, AS, TC, AM, BS conceptualization, reviewing and guiding analysis and manuscript. All authors read and approved the final version of the manuscript.
Corresponding author
Correspondence to Deepak Chandra Bhatt (email:[email protected])
Consent for publication
Not applicable
Availability of data and materials
Qualified researchers may request data access by emailing the corresponding author. In such an event, the researchers will consult with the Government of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh state health before providing data access to the concerned parties.
Competing interest
The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
This study was reviewed and approved by the Government of Rajasthan and the Government of Madhya Pradesh, which own the data and provided the datasets. The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health Institutional Review Board (IRB) reviewed the activities and determined them to be not human subjects research and thus not requiring IRB oversight (IRB No: 12705). The Johns Hopkins School of Public Health IRB is one of Jhpiego’s designated IRBs of record as documented with the U.S. government’s office of human subject’s protection. All data used in this study were collected as a part of routine monitoring of government programs, and the datasets provided by the Governments of Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh did not contain any patient or provider identifiers; hence informed consent was not required.