Author(s) | Year | Country/ region of study | Preventive intervention implemented | Phase applicable to intervention |
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Bacon | 2003 | sub-Saharan Africa | Improving access to adequate medical care; Health education programs | All three phases |
Banke-Thomas et al. | 2014 | sub-Saharan Africa | Community and Facility based interventions | All three phases |
Fistula carea | 2010 | Guinea (Kissidougou) | Village safe motherhood committees; Financial partnerships; Maternal waiting homes; and Market Towns and Local Resource Mobilisation project | All three phases |
Fistula care (a)a | 2011 | Sierra Leone | Aberdeen’s Women’s Centre: counselling, family planning, and a maternity care unit for pregnancy care, labour and delivery, and postpartum recovery (services to prevent fistulas) | All three phases |
Fistula care (b)a | 2011 | sub-Saharan Africa | Partograph | Phase 3: Receiving adequate care |
Fistula carea | 2013 | Uganda | Partograph | Phase 3: Receiving adequate care |
Gerten et al. | 2009 | Nigeria | Patient educational brochure at a vesicovaginal hospital | Phase 1: Decision to seek care |
Levin and Kabagema | 2011 | sub-Saharan Africa | Partograph | Phase 3: Receiving adequate care |
Markos and Bogale | 2015 | Ethiopia (Bale zone) | Partograph | Phase 3: Receiving adequate care |
Miller et al. | 2005 | sub-Saharan Africa | Fistula prevention centres; Community-based preventions; Maternal waiting homes; and Training course about screening for risk of fistula | All three phases |
Nathan et al. | 2009 | West Africa | Femme pour Femme, community healthcare insurance plan | All three phases |
Ngoma | 2011 | Zambia | EmOC and Safe Motherhood Actions Groups (SMAGs); and Income generating activities (IGA) | All three phases |
Ojanuga | 1991 | Nigeria | Community health education programs; organizing transport for pregnant women in need; and training traditional birth attendants | All three phases |
Ojanuga | 1992 | Nigeria | Health education programs | Phase 1: Decision to seek care |
Seim et al. | 2014 | Niger | Community-mobilization program that arrange transport for women who experience complicated labours | All three phases |
Tahzib | 1989 | Nigeria | Safe motherhood initiatives not specified but aimed at encouraging hospital deliveries, and the improvement of the perception of facilities by women seeking help | All three phases |
Turan et al. | 2007 | Eritrea | Transport of women to healthcare facilities | Phase 2: Accessibility of care |
UNFPA | 2013 | sub-Saharan Africa | Global midwifery program; All-terrain motorbikes (Women and Health Alliance International) | Phase 2: Accessibility of care; Phase 3: Receiving adequate care |