About the Authors

Waqas Hameed

Affiliation Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Department, Marie Stopes Society, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Syed Khurram Azmat

Affiliations Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Department, Marie Stopes Society, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan, Department of Uro-gynecology, University of Ghent, Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium

Moazzam Ali

Affiliation Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Muhammad Ishaque Sheikh

Affiliation Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Department, Marie Stopes Society, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Ghazunfer Abbas

Affiliation Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Department, Marie Stopes Society, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan

Marleen Temmerman

Affiliations Department of Uro-gynecology, University of Ghent, Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium, Department of Reproductive Health and Research, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Bilal Iqbal Avan

bilal.avan@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BIA WH. Performed the experiments: WH BIA. Analyzed the data: WH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: WH. Wrote the paper: WH BIA. Literature review and preliminary data analysis: MIS GA. Critical and intellectual review of draft manuscript and feedback for revision: SKA MA MT. Supervised the entire study: BIA.