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Correction to: The missing link between legal age of sexual consent and age of marriage in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for sexual and reproductive health and rights

Reproductive Health volume 18, Article number: 140 (2021) Cite this article

The Original Article was published on 21 June 2021

Correction to: Reprod Health (2021) 18:128 https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-021-01177-w

In the original publication of this article [1] the captions of figures 1 and 2 were identical. In this correction article the correct captions are published. The original article has been updated (Figs. 1, 2).

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Legal age of consent and the age of marriage in the ten sub-Saharan African countries with fertility rates above 5.0

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Legal age of consent and the fertility rates of the ten sub-Saharan African countries with fertility rates above 5.0

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  1. Ahinkorah BO, Okyere J, Hagan JE Jr, Seidu AA, Aboagye RG, Yaya S. The missing link between legal age of sexual consent and age of marriage in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for sexual and reproductive health and rights. Reprod Health. 2021;18:128. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-021-01177-w.

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  1. School of Public Health, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, NSW, Australia

    Bright Opoku Ahinkorah

  2. Department of Population and Health, College of Humanities and Legal Studies, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana

    Joshua Okyere & Abdul-Aziz Seidu

  3. Department of Health Promotion, Education and Disability Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

    John Elvis Hagan Jr

  4. Neuro-Cognition and Action-Biomechanics-Research Group, Faculty of Psychology and Sport Sciences, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany

    John Elvis Hagan Jr

  5. College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, QLD, Australia

    Abdul-Aziz Seidu

  6. Takoradi Technical University, P.O. Box 257, Takoradi, Ghana

    Abdul-Aziz Seidu

  7. School of Public Health, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana

    Richard Gyan Aboagye

  8. School of International Development and Global Studies, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

    Sanni Yaya

  9. The George Institute for Global Health, Imperial College London, London, UK

    Sanni Yaya

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Ahinkorah, B.O., Okyere, J., Hagan, J.E. et al. Correction to: The missing link between legal age of sexual consent and age of marriage in sub-Saharan Africa: implications for sexual and reproductive health and rights. Reprod Health 18, 140 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12978-021-01190-z

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