Reducing financial barriers to obstetric care in low-income countries • Fabienne Richard, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp ; Sophie Witter, University of Aberdeen

Rich-poor gap in utilisation of delivery care services in India, 1992-2005 • Praveen Kumar Pathak, International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS)

Public-private partnerships to reduce maternal mortality: silver bullet or smoking gun? • Paul McNamee, University of Aberdeen ; Akash Acharya, Centre for Social Studies (CSS)

Giving birth in health care facilities in Burundi: the factors behind a health paradox • Médiatrice Nkurunziza, Université Catholique de Louvain