Uncovering the causes and socio-demographic constructs of stillbirths and neonatal deaths in an urban slum of Karachi

• Ameer Muhammad ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ameer Muhammad, Yasir Shafiq

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ameer.muhammad@vitalpakistantrust.org

  Affiliation VITAL Pakistan Trust, Karachi, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8485-641X

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• Muhammad Salman Haider Rizvee,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical College, The Aga khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Uzma Khan,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation VITAL Pakistan Trust, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Hina Khan,

  Roles Writing – original draft

  Affiliation VITAL Pakistan Trust, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Alishan Bachlany,

  Roles Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation VITAL Pakistan Trust, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Benazir Baloch,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Yasir Shafiq

  Contributed equally to this work with: Ameer Muhammad, Yasir Shafiq

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre of Excellence for Trauma and Emergencies (CETE) & Community Health Science, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan, CRIMEDIM–Center for Research and Training in Disaster Medicine, Humanitarian Aid, and Global Health, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy, Department of Translational Medicine, Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy, Department of Pediatric Newborn Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, United States of America

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