Mistreatment of Women in Childbirth: Time for Action on This Important Dimension of Violence against Women

• Rachel Jewkes ,

  * E-mail: rjewkes@mrc.ac.za

  Affiliations Gender & Health Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Loveday Penn-Kekana

  Affiliations School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Maternal Health Group, Department of Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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