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Article History

Received: 27 June 2023

Accepted: 9 September 2024

First Online: 18 November 2024

Declarations

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: The study was permitted and granted ethical approval based on the Helsinki Declaration from the West Gonja Municipal Health Directorate and the University for Development Studies Ethical Review Board [UDS/RB/059/22]. As a result of the conflicting nature of legal marital age and cultural distances expressed by the Fulani, authorization was sought from husbands/close relatives of under-aged women (women < 18 years). Due to the high illiteracy numbers in rural Ghana, respondents (women ≥ 18 years) were asked to provide written/thumb-printed informed consent. All respondents were assured full discretional use of the information for the purposes of the study. Authors report that all experiments conducted on humans and/or the use of human tissue samples/human data were performed in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations such as the Declaration of Helsinki.

: Not Applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.