Female genital mutilation and safer sex negotiation among women in sexual unions in sub-Saharan Africa: Analysis of demographic and health survey data

• Richard Gyan Aboagye,

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

  Affiliations School of Population Health, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Department of Family and Community Health, Fred N. Binka School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3498-2909

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• Bright Opoku Ahinkorah,

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

  Affiliations School of Clinical Medicine, University of New South Wales Sydney, Sydney, Australia, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia, REMS Consultancy Services Limited, Sekondi-Takoradi, Western Region, Ghana

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• Abdul-Aziz Seidu,

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

  Affiliations REMS Consultancy Services Limited, Sekondi-Takoradi, Western Region, Ghana, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Services, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia, Centre for Gender and Advocacy, Takoradi Technical University, Takoradi, Ghana

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• James Boadu Frimpong,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, Department of Kinesiology, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9416-1176

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• Collins Adu ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: collinsadu80@yahoo.com

  Affiliations Department of Health Promotion, Education and Disability Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Centre for Social Research in Health, University of New South Wales Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1300-6327

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• John Elvis Hagan Jr.,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana, Neurocognition and Action-Biomechanics-Research Group, Faculty of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

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• Salma A. E. Ahmed,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2510-6384

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• Sanni Yaya

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, The George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4876-6043

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