About the Authors
- Kimiyo Kikuchi
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Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Tokyo, Japan
- Evelyn Korkor Ansah
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Contributed equally to this work with: Evelyn Korkor Ansah, Sumiyo Okawa
Affiliation Research and Development Division, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
- Sumiyo Okawa
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Contributed equally to this work with: Evelyn Korkor Ansah, Sumiyo Okawa
Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Tokyo, Japan
- Yeetey Enuameh
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Affiliation Kintampo Health Research Centre, Kintampo, Brong-Ahafo, Ghana
- Junko Yasuoka
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Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Tokyo, Japan
- Keiko Nanishi
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Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Tokyo, Japan
- Akira Shibanuma
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Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Tokyo, Japan
- Margaret Gyapong
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Dodowa Health Research Centre, Dodowa, Greater Accra, Ghana
- Seth Owusu-Agyei
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Kintampo Health Research Centre, Kintampo, Brong-Ahafo, Ghana
- Abraham Rexford Oduro
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¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.
Affiliation Navrongo Health Research Centre, Navrongo, Upper-East, Ghana
- Gloria Quansah Asare
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Affiliation Ghana Health Service, Ministries, Accra, Ghana
- Abraham Hodgson
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Affiliation Research and Development Division, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
- Masamine Jimba
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* E-mail: mjimba@m.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Affiliation Department of Community and Global Health, Graduate School of Medicine, the University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113–0033, Tokyo, Japan
- Ghana EMBRACE Implementation Research Project Team
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¶Membership of the Ghana EMBRACE Implementation Research Project is listed in the Acknowledgments.
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: KK JY KN. Performed the experiments: KK. Analyzed the data: KK SO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: KK. Wrote the paper: EA SO YE JY KN MJ. Contributed to the provision of critical comments on the final manuscript: AS MG SOA ARO GQA AH.