Strengthening Kangaroo Mother Care at a tertiary level hospital in Zambia: A prospective descriptive study

• Nobutu Muttau,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Martha Mwendafilumba,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Branishka Lewis ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BL and KK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Keilya Kasprzyk ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ BL and KK also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, The Brown School, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

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• Colm Travers,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

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• J. Anitha Menon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, Department of Psychology, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Kunda Mutesu-Kapembwa,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Neonatology, Women and Newborn Hospital, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Aaron Mangangu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron Mangangu, Herbert Kapesa

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9024-0443

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• Herbert Kapesa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Aaron Mangangu, Herbert Kapesa

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Albert Manasyan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: albertmanasyan@uabmc.edu

  Affiliations Department of Reproductive, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health, Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6275-245X

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