The Health Sector Response to Gender-Based Violence and Sexual Reproductive Health Programs in the Commonwealth and Selected African Countries: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Refilwe Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Edith Phalane   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Nompumelelo Zungu   ^{2, 3} , PhD ;   Alfred Musekiwa   ^{4 *} , PhD ;   Lebogang Ramalepe   ^{5 *} , MSc ;   Kayla Bagg   ⁶ , MSc ;   Peter Nyasulu   ⁷ , Prof Dr ;   Olive Shisana   ^{6, 8 *} , PhD

¹ South African Medical Research Council Pan African Centre for Epidemics Research Extramural Unit, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

² Public Health, Societies and Belonging, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

³ School of Nursing and Public Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

⁴ School of Health Systems and Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

⁵ Vanderbijlpark Campus, COMPRES Research Entity, University of North-West, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa

⁶ Evidence Based Solutions Consulting, Pty Ltd, Cape Town, South Africa

⁷ Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

⁸ Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

*these authors contributed equally