About the Authors

Adama Baguiya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

abaguiya@gmail.com

Affiliations Biomedical and Public Health Department, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Doctoral School, Saint Thomas d’Aquin University, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Mercedes Bonet

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Reproductive Health and Research, UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Vanessa Brizuela

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Reproductive Health and Research, UNDP/UNFPA/UNICEF/WHO/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction (HRP), World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Cristina Cuesta

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Economics and Statistics, National University of Rosario, Rosario, Argentina

Marian Knight

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Nuffield Department of Population Health, National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Pisake Lumbiganon

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand

Edgardo Abalos

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centro Rosarino de Estudios Perinatales (CREP), Rosario, Argentina

Séni Kouanda

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biomedical and Public Health Department, Institut de Recherche en Sciences de la Santé (IRSS), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Doctoral School, Saint Thomas d’Aquin University, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

WHO Global Maternal Sepsis Study Research Group

Membership of WHO Global Maternal Sepsis Study Research Group is provided in S1 Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.