Sex inequality in early initiation of breastfeeding in 24 sub-Saharan African countries: A multi-country analysis of Demographic and Health Surveys

• Obasanjo Afolabi Bolarinwa ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: bolarinwaobasanjo@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9208-6408

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• Bright Opoku Ahinkorah,

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

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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• Francis Arthur-Holmes,

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

  Affiliation Department of Sociology and Social Policy, Lingnan University, Tuen Mun, Hong Kong

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• Richard Gyan Aboagye,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Family and Community Health, School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Hohoe, Ghana

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• Edward Kwabena Ameyaw,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

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• Eugene Budu,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Population and Health, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

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• Abdul-Aziz Seidu,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia, Department of Estate Management, Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana, Centre for Gender and Advocacy, Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana

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• Uzairue Leonard Ighodalo,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Faculty of Basic Medical Science, Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Ekiti State, Nigeria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2547-175X

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• Sanni Yaya

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

  Affiliations School of International Development and Global Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa, 120 University Private, Ottawa, ON, Canada, The George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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