About the Authors
- Samantha R. Lattof
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* E-mail: slattof@hsph.harvard.edu (SL)
Affiliation Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Mary Nell Wegner
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Affiliation Independent Consultant, Maternal Health Task Force, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Ana Langer
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Affiliation Maternal Health Task Force, Women and Health Initiative, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- and the PLoS Medicine Editors
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* E-mail: slattof@hsph.harvard.edu (SL)
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. 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 SJ MN PS EV. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: SRL MNW AL JC VB SJ MN PS EV.