Improving maternal and newborn health services in Northeast Nigeria through a government-led partnership of stakeholders: a quasi-experimental study.
Barbara WilleyNasir UmarEmma BeaumontElizabeth AllenJennifer AnyantiAbubakar Bala BelloAntoinette Alas BhattacharyaJosephine ExleyKrystyna MakowieckaMagdalene OkoloRabi SaniJoanna SchellenbergNeil SpicerUmar Adamu UsmanAhmed Mohammed GanaAbdulrahman ShuaibuTanya MarchantPublished in: BMJ open (2022)
This intervention achieved improvements in life-saving behaviours for mothers and newborns, demonstrating that multipartner action, coordinated through government leadership, can shift the needle in the right direction, even in resource-constrained settings.