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Between April and June 2015, exit interviews were conducted among <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">MWH<\/jats:styled-content> users and non\u2010users.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Compared with non\u2010users, <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">MWH<\/jats:styled-content> users at Area 25 were significantly more likely to report a prior spontaneous abortion (10\/46 [21.7%] vs 5\/95 [5.3%]; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>=0.006) and to be in the lowest wealth quintile (4\/87 [4.6%] vs 0\/150; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>=0.029). Although not significant, a greater percentage of <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">MWH<\/jats:styled-content> users at Kasungu District Hospital than non\u2010users had a prior stillbirth (6\/84 [7.1%] vs 0\/77) or spontaneous abortion (3\/84 [3.6%] vs 2\/77 [2.6%]), and were in the lowest wealth quintile (15\/175 [8.6%] vs 5\/141 [3.5%]). <jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">MWH<\/jats:styled-content> users at Kasungu lived further from the hospital than did non\u2010<jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">MWH<\/jats:styled-content> users, although the difference was not significant (mean 6.81\u00b19.1\u00a0km vs 4.05\u00b17.42\u00a0km; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>=0.067).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title><jats:p><jats:styled-content style=\"fixed-case\">MWH<\/jats:styled-content>s offer a promising strategy to reduce maternal mortality in Malawi and other low\u2010income 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