Scientific rationale for study design of community-based simplified antibiotic therapy trials in newborns and young infants with clinically diagnosed severe infections or fast breathing in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

"The Bangladesh study was funded by the United States Agency for International Development, through a cooperative agreement (GHS-A-00-09-00004-00) with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, World Health Organization and by the Saving Newborn Lives program of Save the Children Federation, Inc, through a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The authors have no other funding or conflicts of interest to disclose."

"This journal article was supported with funds provided by Save the Children’s Saving Newborn Lives Program through a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Save the Children or the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Pakistan study was funded by the Saving Newborn Lives program of Save the Children Federation, Inc, through a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization. S.S.T. received training support from the Fogarty International Center, National Institute of Health, grant D43TW007585. The Bangladesh study was funded by the United States Agency for International Development, through a cooperative agreement (GHS-A-00-09-00004-00) with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, World Health Organization and by the Saving Newborn Lives program of Save the Children Federation, Inc, through a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The authors have no other funding or conflicts of interest to disclose. The African study was funded by the World Health Organization through a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation."