van Aswegen, Heleen
Roos, Ronel
Svensson-Raskh, Anna
Svensson, Annie
Sehlin, Maria
Caragounis, Eva-Corina
Plani, Frank
Fagevik-Olsén, Monika
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of South Africa (141963, 141963, 141963)
Swedish government and the county councils, the ALF-agreement (ALFGBG-718811, ALFGBG-718811, ALFGBG-718811, ALFGBG-718811, ALFGBG-718811)
University of the Witwatersrand
Article History
Received: 10 October 2024
Accepted: 25 December 2024
First Online: 16 January 2025
Declarations
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: The authors declare no competing interests. The authors declare that they have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to declare.
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. In South Africa, approval was granted by the University of the Witwatersrand Human Research Ethics (Medical) committee (Date: 27/06/2020; No. M200222). In Sweden, approval was granted by the Regional Ethics Committee for the region of Västra Götaland (Date: 22/10/2019; No. Dnr2019-04848). Permission was obtained from all relevant authorities at the two participating sites in South Africa and the four participating sites in Sweden. Informed consent was obtained from all potential participants before study enrolment.