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Article History

Received: 22 September 2021

Accepted: 22 May 2022

First Online: 23 June 2022

Declarations

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: The ESRC of Amref Health Africa gave the approval of the research protocol. Approval to carry out the study was sought from NACOSTI. The participants were requested to sign an online informed consent before starting the online survey. The website was secured with a strong password which was provided to the study participants, research facilitators, and the team that carried out the study. The research administrators submitted the online filled questionnaires to the servers, which was only accessible by them. The focused group discussion recordings were secured with a password until data analysis was completed, and then the recordings were discarded following ESRC guidelines. The participants were not allowed to use their names on the questionnaires; instead, they used codes to enhance anonymity. Codes were used instead of participants’ names on the questionnaire to ensure anonymity. The staff with access to login details of the website and the server administrators were required to sign a Confidentiality Agreement at the commencement of the study.

: All the authors gave their consent for the manuscript to be published.

: The authors declare that there was no conflict of interest in publication of the manuscript.