Reasons for Preference of Home Delivery with Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) in Rural Bangladesh: A Qualitative Exploration

• Bidhan Krishna Sarker ,

  * E-mail: bidhan@icddrb.org; bidhanicddrb@gmail.com

  Affiliation Centre for Reproductive Health, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), GPO Box-1000, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Musfikur Rahman,

  Affiliation Centre for Reproductive Health, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), GPO Box-1000, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Tawhidur Rahman,

  Affiliation Centre for Reproductive Health, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), GPO Box-1000, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Jahangir Hossain,

  Affiliation Care Bangladesh, Pragati Insurance Bhabhan, 20–21 Kawran Bazar, Level 9–13, Dhaka, 1215, Bangladesh

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• Laura Reichenbach,

  Affiliations Senior Associate and Deputy Director for Research, The Evidence Project, Population Council, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, Former Director and Social Scientist, Centre for Reproductive Health, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), GPO Box-1000, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Dipak Kumar Mitra

  Affiliation International Center for Maternal and Newborn Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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