About the Authors

Esnat D. Chirwa

Contributed equally to this work with: Esnat D. Chirwa, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Rachel Jewkes

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

Esnat.Chirwa@mrc.ac.za

Affiliation Gender and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

Yandisa Sikweyiya

Contributed equally to this work with: Esnat D. Chirwa, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Rachel Jewkes

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gender and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

Adolphina Addoley Addo-Lartey

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Deda Ogum Alangea

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Dorcas Coker-Appiah

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre, Accra, Ghana

Richard M. K. Adanu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Rachel Jewkes

Contributed equally to this work with: Esnat D. Chirwa, Yandisa Sikweyiya, Rachel Jewkes

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Gender and Health Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.