Reducing intrapartum-related neonatal deaths in low- and middle-income countries-what works?

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Published in Semin Perinatol on December 01, 2010

Authors

Stephen N Wall1, Anne C C Lee, Waldemar Carlo, Robert Goldenberg, Susan Niermeyer, Gary L Darmstadt, William Keenan, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Jeffrey Perlman, Joy E Lawn

Author Affiliations

1: Saving Newborn Lives, Save the Children, Washington, DC, USA and Cape Town, South Africa.

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