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Erratum to: Auxiliary midwives in hard to reach rural areas of Myanmar: filling MCH gaps

BMC Public Health volume 16, Article number: 1074 (2016) Cite this article

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Erratum

In the publication of this article [1], the following percentage symbols were accidentally missed out from the ‘Results’ and ‘Discussion’ sections:

Results

2. Becoming an auxiliary midwife: the pathways

…as 89 % reported…

3. AMW: contributions of and supports to AMW

…about 9 % of the respondents…

…such as technical supervision (99 %), refresher course (99 %), replenishment of AMW kits (96 %)…

4. AMW: Intention to stay

…if they needed to change their domicile (21 %)

Discussion

…Naturally in Myanmar, 39 % of AMWs…

In addition to the above, some figures in Table 4 were misaligned. The updated Table 4 is presented below:

Table 4 Expected years to serve the community and potential reasons for quitting AMW job
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All the above have been updated in the original article.

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  1. Wangmo S, et al. Auxiliary midwives in hard to reach rural areas of Myanmar: filling MCH gaps. BMC Public Health. 2016;16:914. doi:10.1186/s12889-016-3584-x.

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  1. International Health Policy Program (IHPP), Ministry of Public Health, Tiwanon Road, Nonthaburi, 11000, Thailand

    Sangay Wangmo, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Chiraporn Khitdee, Walaiporn Patcharanarumol & Viroj Tangcharoensathien

  2. MoH, Myanmar, Naypyitaw, Myanmar

    Wai Mar Mar Htun & Tin Tun Aung

  3. Independent consultant, Naypyitaw, Myanmar

    Pe Thet Htoon

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Wangmo, S., Suphanchaimat, R., Htun, W.M.M. et al. Erratum to: Auxiliary midwives in hard to reach rural areas of Myanmar: filling MCH gaps. BMC Public Health 16, 1074 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-016-3747-9

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