An ethnographic study of how health system, socio-cultural and individual factors influence uptake of intermittent preventive treatment of malaria in pregnancy with sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine in a Ghanaian context

• Matilda Aberese-Ako ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: maberese-ako@uhas.edu.gh, maberese@gmail.com

  Affiliation Institute of Health Research, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1577-5939

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• Pascal Magnussen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, Centre for Medical Parasitology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

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• Gifty D. Ampofo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

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• Margaret Gyapong,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Health Research, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

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• Evelyn Ansah,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Health Research, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

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• Harry Tagbor

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Medicine, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

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