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Article History

Received: 29 April 2025

Accepted: 2 October 2025

First Online: 24 October 2025

Declarations

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: Ethics approval was granted by the Department of Health and the South African Medical Research Council (EC028-6-2021). Written informed consent was obtained from all participants. The study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.

: JHH is a Chief Specialist Scientist and disability researcher with a disability. and over 20 years of research and implementation experience, TN is a Technologist with 10 years of study implementation experience, SW is a Senior Specialist Scientist and GBV researcher who has over 20 years of research and implementation experience, NZ & SM are young researchers with disability who conducted research for the first time in this study, AM is a public health practitioner who coordinates crisis and PHC centres and has over 20 years experience in health and post-GBV care delivery, TP a public health and disability researcher with over 10 years experience, JL was a disability sector representative and person with disability with over 10 years experience, TM is a disability sector representative and young person with disability, BC is a Senior Researcher on disability, health and data science with 10 years experience.

: The authors declare no competing interests.