1. Born Free and Healthy: Examining Access to Maternal Health Services through Ghana’s Free Maternal Health Care Policy • Fidelia A. A. Dake, Regional Institute For Population Studies, University Of Ghana; Frank Otchere, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

2. Exclusive Breastfeeding Patterns in Tanzania. Do Individual, Household, or Community Factors Matter? • Kwalu S. Dede, International Institute of Social Studies-Erasmus University Rotterdam.; Hilde Bras, Groningen University.

3. The Perinatal and Neonatal Mortality Pathways • Kananura Rornald Muhumuza, Makerere University School of Public Health; Tiziana Leone, LSE; Dan Kajungu, INESS; Tryphena Nareeba, Iganga-Mayuge Health Demographic Surveillance Site; Arjan Gjonca, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

4. Etude de la mortalité des enfants au Sénégal* • Oumy Ndiaye, CREFAT; Mahmouth Mr Diouf, ONU Femmes.

5. Increasing Access to Skilled Pregnancy Care: Community-Led Intervention in Rural Nigeria • Friday Okonofua, University of Medical Sciences, Ondo State , Nigeria; Lorretta Favour C. Ntoimo, Federal University Oye-Ekiti; Sanni Yaya, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, Canada; Blessing Omo-Omorodion.