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Determinants of Late Initiation of Antenatal Care Among Pregnant Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Qualitative Systematic Review

2025-03-20

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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Introduction</bold> Antenatal care utilization serves as an essential metric for tracking the progress of maternal and neonatal health outcomes. Commencing antenatal care promptly facilitates the timely addressing and treatment of pregnancy complications, thus mitigating maternal mortality rates. Generally, antenatal care utilization is very low in Sub Saharan Africa (SSA). Furthe...

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Literature Corpus work: 57716730-c7fb-56d7-80ab-3a61df565a66
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6229528/v1

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