Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (72067420CA00003 and AID-674-A-12-00002)
Article History
Accepted: 24 August 2024
First Online: 9 September 2024
Declarations
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: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study was approved by the Social Behavioral Institutional Review Board at Tulane University in the U.S. (study reference no: 2018 − 1736) and the Pharma Ethics Independent Research Ethics Committee in South Africa (study reference no: 181021579).
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
: The authors have no competing interests to declare that are relevant to the content of this article.