Gamji Rabiu Abu-Ba’are:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1718-0381
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– original draftRole: Writing – review & editing
Gloria Aidoo-Frimpong:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4658-2953
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Formal analysisRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Melissa Stockton: Role: Data curationRole: ValidationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing – review
& editing
Edem Yaw Zigah:
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8172-4427
Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – original draftRole: Writing
– review & editing
Samuel Amuah: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Writing – review & editing
Prince Amu-Adu: Role: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole: Writing
– review & editing
Richard Panix Amoh-Otoo: Role: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: InvestigationRole: Project administrationRole:
Writing – review & editing
Laura Nyblade: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
Kwasi Torpey: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole: MethodologyRole:
Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing – review & editing
LaRon E. Nelson: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: InvestigationRole:
MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole: Writing
– review & editing
Kevin Escandón: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLOS Glob Public Health
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLOS Glob Public Health
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Title:
PLOS Global Public Health
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
2767-3375
Publication date
(Electronic):
11
January
2024
Publication date Collection: 2024
Volume: 4
Issue: 1
Electronic Location Identifier: e0002231
Affiliations
[1
]
Behavioral, Sexual and Global Health Lab, School of Nursing, University of Rochester
Medical Center, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America
[2
]
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester Medical Center, University
of Rochester, Rochester, New York, United States of America
[3
]
Yale AIDS Prevention Program (Y-APT), Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS,
School of Public Health/Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United
States of America
[4
]
Behavioral, Sexual and Global Health Lab, West Africa Site, Jama’a Action, West Legon,
Accra, Ghana
[5
]
Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
[6
]
Priorities on Rights and Sexual Health, Accra, Ghana
[7
]
Youth Alliance for Health and Human Rights, Kumasi, Ghana
[8
]
RTI International, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
[9
]
Department of Population, Family & Reproductive Health, School of Public Health, University
of Ghana, Legon-Accra, Ghana
[10
]
School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
University of Minnesota Medical School Twin Cities, UNITED STATES
Author notes
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PGPH-D-23-00411
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgph.0002231
PMC ID: 10783711
PubMed ID: 38206889
SO-VID: 5f25715a-e99b-409e-947d-13aea18de906
Copyright © © 2024 Abu-Ba’are et al
License:
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the
Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided
the original author and source are credited.
Funded by:
funder-id http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000056, National Institute of Nursing Research;
Award ID: R01 NR019009
Award Recipient
:
LaRon E. Nelson
The funding for this study was awarded to LEN, LN, and KT by the National Institute
of Nursing Research, grant number R01NR019009. GRA and GA time working on the study
was supported by The Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (P30 MH06224),
and The Yale AIDS Prevention Training program (T32 MH020031). The funders had no role
in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation
of the manuscript.
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