Protocol for analysing the epidemiology of maternal mortality in Zimbabwe: A civil registration and vital statistics trend study

• Reuben Musarandega ,

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

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

  * E-mail: rmusara@gmail.com

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0622-2195

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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