Article History
Received: 17 January 2018
Accepted: 4 October 2018
First Online: 12 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This paper is based on secondary data that is available in in the public domain. The data were accessed with permission from the DHS program. The Demographic and Health Surveys in Uganda were conducted in adherence to the World Health Organization’s ethical and safety recommendations for research. Participation in the surveys was on voluntary basis and informed consent was obtained from the participants. In order to ensure confidentiality, participants’ identifiers were not included in the datasets.
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