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ISRCTN20510127.The maternal and child (MCH) handbook is an integrated home-based record and is part of a scheme designed to record in a single document, all the information regarding health services provided to a mother, and the health conditions of her and her child, in a single document [Although the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends the use of home-based records as complementary to facility-based records, the superiority of the MCH handbook over other home-based record formats remains unclear [The Republic of Angola is a lower middle-income level country located along the west coast of Southern Africa [The Government of Angola’s National Plan for Health Development 2012-2025 prioritizes pregnant women, infants, and young children as target populations; and the government, with support from the United Nations (UN), Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and other organizations, is working to strengthen the health information system in the collection, processing, and analysis of data [