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Article History

Received: 2 August 2017

Accepted: 13 July 2018

First Online: 3 August 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The study was performed under the auspices of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) and the West African Health Organization (WAHO) at the administrative level. The requisite permission to interview staff of the GHS was sought by the WAHO as part of the study. Other participants who interacted with the researchers also granted consent and were willing to participate in the interviews. Additionally, those who answered questionnaires during the stakeholder meeting in Accra also granted consent and willingly participated. Formal ethical approval was not sought given that the GHS gave administrative approval in addition to the fact that the study did not deal with any clinical staff.

: Consent to publish the paper has been granted by the West African Health Organization, which is the owner of the original report. All the authors have also agreed to the publication of the paper.

: The authors declare that the paper was funded by the West African Health Organization (WAHO), with contract number Prog-427-DRSIS-ProgResearch-DRSIS/610/15/mbay. This notwithstanding, the views expressed in the paper are purely those of the authors and have not in any way been influenced by the position of WAHO. Thus, the authors together declare that they have no competing interests.

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