About the Authors

Reuben Musarandega

Contributed equally to this work with: Reuben Musarandega, Stephen Peter Munjanja

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

rmusara@gmail.com

Affiliation School of Health Systems and Public Health, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Rhoderick Machekano

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Biostatistics and Epidemiology Department, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Robert Pattinson

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Research Centre for Maternal, Fetal, Newborn & Child Health Care Strategies, SAMRC Maternal and Infant Health Care Strategies Research Unit, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Stephen Peter Munjanja

Contributed equally to this work with: Reuben Musarandega, Stephen Peter Munjanja

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences, Harare, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe Maternal and Perinatal Mortality Study (ZMPMS) group

Membership of the Zimbabwe Maternal and Perinatal Study groups for 2007 and 2018 is listed in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.