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Seidu, Abdul-Aziz http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9734-9054
Oduro, Joseph Kojo http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1347-7102
Ahinkorah, Bright Opoku http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7415-895X
Budu, Eugene http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8484-9225
Appiah, Francis http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1465-5211
Baatiema, Linus http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8668-4671
Ameyaw, Edward Kwabena http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6617-237X
Sambah, Francis http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4245-7028
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Received: 22 January 2020
Accepted: 8 October 2020
First Online: 22 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The DHS surveys obtain ethical clearance from the Ethics Committee of ORC Macro Inc. as well as Ethics Boards of partner organisations of the various countries such as the Ministries of Health. During each of the surveys, either written or verbal consent was provided by the women. Since the data was not collected by the authors of this paper, we sought permission from MEASURE DHS website and access to the data was provided after our intent for the request was assessed and approved on 27th January, 2019.
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: The authors declare no competing interests in the conduct of this research. Abdul-Aziz Seidu, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw and Bright Opoku Ahinkorah are members of the editorial Board.
