Stillbirths: rates, risk factors, and acceleration towards 2030

David Osrin | Carina King | Agbessi Amouzou | Prasanta Tripathy | Nirmala Nair | Audrey Prost | Mika Gissler | Madhu Gupta | Colin Mathers | Vicki Flenady | Manmeet Kaur | Simon Cousens | Hannah Blencowe | Bradley N Manktelow | Anthony Costello | Sayed Rubayet | Juan Liang | Edward Fottrell | Kishwar Azad | Rajesh Kumar | Peter Waiswa | J. Hirst | C. Mathers | T. Colbourn | A. Costello | M. Gissler | S. Cousens | M. Mathai | J. Lawn | K. Klungsøyr | D. Osrin | E. Draper | H. Blencowe | L. Day | Juan Liang | Jun Zhu | B. Manktelow | A. Prost | Neena Shah More | J. Dijs-Elsinga | M. Neuman | Anisur Rahman | E. Mcclure | H. Barros | Fiorella Bianchi Jassir | S. Shiekh | Z. Qureshi | D. You | B. Varghese | M. Kaur | Lucy Smith | L. de Bernis | S. Wangdi | C. King | E. Fottrell | Yi Mu | Xiaohong Li | J. Frøen | C. Hukkelhoven | J. Zeitlin | K. Azad | S. Correia | M. Kinney | P. Waiswa | A. Amouzou | D. Hogan | V. Flenady | C. Calderwood | L. Bernis | A. Heazell | S. Leisher | S. el-Arifeen | S. L. Shah | S. Alam | Tinga Fulbert Ilboudo | N. Zhong | Theopisti Kyprianou | Kärt Allvee | Abdoulie Bah | Lamin Jawara | N. Lack | Flor de Maria Herandez | N. S. More | Nirmala Nair | Prasanta K Tripathy | Rajesh Kumar | A. Newtonraj | Madhu Gupta | Jelena Isakova | T. Phiri | Jennifer Hall | A. Curteanu | D. Manandhar | Olva Poppe | Shorena Tsiklauri | Jan-Patrick Cap | Zuzana Podmanická | K. Szamotulska | R. Pattison | A. Hassan | Aimable Musafi | S. Kujala | A. Bergstrom | Jens Roos | E. Lundqvist | D. Kadobera | S. Rubayet | Joy E Lawn | Xiaohong Li | Jun Zhu | Melissa Neuman | Elizabeth S Draper | Jennifer Zeitlin | Dan Hogan | J Frederik Frøen | Zeshan U Qureshi | Claire Calderwood | Suhail Shiekh | Danzhen You | Elizabeth M McClure | Matthews Mathai | Mary V Kinney | Luc de Bernis | Alexander Heazell | Susannah Hopkins Leisher | Anisur Rahman | Shams El-Arifeen | Louise T Day | Stacy L Shah | Shafi Alam | Sonam Wangdi | Yi Mu | Nanbert Zhong | Theopisti Kyprianou | Kärt Allvee | Abdouli Bah | Lamin Jawara | Nicholas Lack | Neena Shah More | Ariarathinam Newtonraj | Beena Varghese | Jelena Isakova | Tambosi Phiri | Jennifer A Hall | Ala Curteanu | Dharma Manandhar | Chantal Hukkelhoven | Joyce Dijs-Elsinga | Kari Klungsøyr | Olva Poppe | Henrique Barros | Sofi Correia | Shorena Tsiklauri | Jan Cap | Zuzana Podmanicka | Katarzyna Szamotulska | Robert Pattison | Ahmed Ali Hassan | Aimable Musafi | Sanni Kujala | Anna Bergstrom | Jens Langhoff -Roos | Ellen Lundqvist | Daniel Kadobera | Tim Colbourn | Jane Hirst | Lucy Smith | N. Nair | P. Tripathy | O. Poppe | T. Kyprianou | J. Isakova | Mary V. Kinney | A. A. Hassan | Tambosi Phiri | Stacy L Shah | Tinga Fulbert Ilboudo | Flor de Maria Herandez | Jens Langhoff -Roos

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