Olagbenro, Matthew
Anderson, Motswedi
Gaseitsiwe, Simani
Powell, Eleanor A.
Gededzha, Maemu P.
Selabe, Selokela G.
Blackard, Jason T. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2876-3811
Funding for this research was provided by:
Sub-Saharan African Network for TB/HIV Research Excellence
Internal Medicine Scholarly Training for Academic Research
National Institute of Health (AI096958)
Article History
Received: 11 September 2020
Accepted: 9 June 2021
First Online: 1 September 2021
Declarations
:
: The author has no conflicts of interest to report.
: For the parent study [], ethical clearance was obtained from the Research and Ethics Committee at the University of Limpopo, Medunsa campus, South Africa (Project number: MP 07/2005) and from the Dr. George Mukhari Hospital (DGMH).
: For the parent study [], all of the samples were de-linked from personal identifiers. Informed consent was not obtained directly from individual participants. Instead, ethical clearance was granted by the Institutional Review Board on the basis that the project utilized only stored samples collected as part of routine clinical care for HIV disease.