Acknowledgements
The study team would like to express our deepest gratitude to all the doctors in charge and management of the hospitals for their continued support, inspiration, and dedication.
Furthermore, we would like to express sincere gratitude to our local research team lead by Ulfat Amour Moh’d, and all our local research assistants. We would like to express sincere gratitude to all the staff at Public Health Laboratory – Ivo de Carneri. We want to thank all staff at Chake Chake, Micheweni, Mkoani and Wete maternity wards who accepted to participate in the study with an open mind and sincere drive to change maternity and neonatal care for the better. Lastly, our most profound gratitude goes to all the participating women and their newborns for sharing their lived experiences and time with the study team. Asante Sana. Thanks to statistician Tobias Wirenfeldt Klausen for supervising the statistical analysis.