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Authors
Alem, Solomon Getachew https://orcid.org/0009-0009-4189-6943
Yallew, Walelegn Worku
Berhanu, Della
Wolde, Konjit
Teshite, Dedefo
Sripad, Pooja
Noguchi, Lisa
Suhowatsky, Stephanie
Hyre, Anne
Worku, Alemayehu
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (INV-003543)
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Article History
Received: 21 November 2024
Accepted: 1 June 2026
First Online: 17 June 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: The research assistants obtained verbal consent from women in a private space within the health facility, using IRB-approved recruitment and consent documents in the local language. Verbal consent was preferred over written consent to respect community norms and ensure confidentiality. This method was approved by the ethics committee of the Addis Continental Institute of Public Health Institutional Ethical Review Board (ACIPH/IRB/006/2021) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 16 June 2021, and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Institutional Review Board (IRB 14448/284) in Baltimore, MD, USA on 10 September 2021. Participants were informed that their participation was voluntary and that they were free to skip any questions they did not wish to answer or withdraw from the study at any time.
Consent for publication: Not applicable.
Competing interests: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest. Participation in the study did not preclude authorship.
