Maternity care in Matlab: present status and possible interventions

Abstract

The work presented here was supported by the Ford Foundation Dhaka for the Maternity Care Project, the Norwagian Agency for International Development for the MCH-FP service programme, and the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B). Current major donors to the ICDDR,B are: The Aga Khan Foundation, Arab Gulf Programme, Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Canada (Canadian International Development Agency, the International Development Research Centre, and World University Service of Canada), the Danish International Development Agency, the Ford Foundation, Japan, the Norwegian Agency for International Development, the Population Council, Saudi Arabia, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United Nations Development Programme, the United States Agency for International Development, the World Bank, and the World Health Organization.