‘‘Ask the way from those who have walked it before”—Grandmothers’ roles in health-related decision making and HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis use among pregnant and breastfeeding women in sub-Saharan Africa

• Krishnaveni Reddy ,

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

  * E-mail: kreddy@wrhi.ac.za

  Affiliation Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3881-2704

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• Doreen Kemigisha,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Makerere University - Johns Hopkins University Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda

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• Miria Chitukuta,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences Clinical Trials Research Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe

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• Sufia Dadabhai,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Blantyre, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Florence Mathebula,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Siyanda Tenza,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Thesla Palanee-Phillips,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0052-5830

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• Julia Ryan,

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

  Affiliation Women’s Global Health Imperative, RTI International, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Nicole Macagna,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

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• Petina Musara,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences Clinical Trials Research Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe

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• Ariane van der Straten

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, ASTRA consulting, Kensington, California, United States of America

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