About the Authors

Ann-Beth Moller

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

ann-beth.moller.2@gu.se

Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Joanne Welsh

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Midwifery Research and Education Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Elizabeth Ayebare

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Effie Chipeta

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Centre for Reproductive Health, Blantyre, Malawi

Mechthild M. Gross

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Midwifery Research and Education Unit, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany

Gisele Houngbo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie (CERRHUD), Cotonou, Benin

Hashim Hounkpatin

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie (CERRHUD), Cotonou, Benin

Bianca Kandeya

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Centre for Reproductive Health, Blantyre, Malawi

Beatrice Mwilike

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Nursing, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

Gorrette Nalwadda

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Max Petzold

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

Antoinette Sognonvi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Reproduction Humaine et en Démographie (CERRHUD), Cotonou, Benin

Claudia Hanson

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Global Public Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.