Men and infertility in The Gambia: Limited biomedical knowledge and awareness discourage male involvement and exacerbate gender-based impacts of infertility

• Susan Dierickx ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SD and KOO are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliation Research Center Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussel, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3140-0771

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• Kelvin Onyango Oruko ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ SD and KOO are joint first authors on this work.

  Affiliations School of Health and Related Research, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom, Faculty of Public Health Sciences, Kenya Medical Training College, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7281-4036

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• Ed Clarke,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vaccines and Immunity Theme, Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Fajara, The Gambia

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• Sainey Ceesay,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Safe Haven Foundation, Fajara, The Gambia

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• Allan Pacey,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Oncology and Metabolism, The Medical School, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4387-8871

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• Julie Balen

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

  * E-mail: j.balen@sheffield.ac.uk

  Affiliation School of Health and Related Research, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4736-8465

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