About the Authors

Aduragbemi O. Banke-Thomas

* Email: a.banke-thomas@liverpool.ac.uk

Affiliations Centre for Maternal and Newborn Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, Merseyside, United Kingdom, Epidemiology and Bio-statistics Department, École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, Rennes, Bretagne, France, School of Health and Related Research, the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Salam F. Kouraogo

Affiliation Surgery department, District Hospital (Centre Médical avec Antenne chirurgicale), Boromo, Boucle du Mouhoun, Burkina Faso

Aboubacar Siribie

Affiliation Surgery department, District Hospital (Centre Médical avec Antenne chirurgicale), Boromo, Boucle du Mouhoun, Burkina Faso

Henock B. Taddese

Affiliation School of Health and Related Research, the University of Sheffield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Judith E. Mueller

Affiliation Epidemiology and Bio-statistics Department, École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique, Rennes, Bretagne, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AB JM. Performed the experiments: AB SK AS. Analyzed the data: AB HT JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AB SK AS JM. Wrote the manuscript: AB HT JM. Translated initial French document to English language: AB SK.