About the Authors
- Samantha R. Lattof
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Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Global Health and Population, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Mary Nell Wegner
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Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Women and Health Initiative, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ana Langer
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Affiliation Harvard School of Public Health, Global Health and Population, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- the PLOS Medicine Editors
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* E-mail: medicine_editors@plos.org
Competing Interests
SL, AL, and MNW declare that no competing interests exist. The Maternal Health Task Force is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Hansen Family Foundation, the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and private donors. The PLOS Medicine editors' individual competing interests are at http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/editorsInterests.action. PLOS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLOS Medicine editors are paid a fixed salary (their salary is not linked to the number of papers published in the journal).
Author Contributions
Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: SRL JC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: SRL MNW AL JC VB LC AR PS MW EV. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: SRL MNW AL JC VB LC AR PS MW EV. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: SRL MNW AL JC VB LC AR PS MW EV.