Kokogho, Afoke
Amusu, Senate
Baral, Stefan D.
Charurat, Manhattan E.
Adebajo, Sylvia
Makanjuola, Olumide
Tonwe, Veronica
Storme, Casey
Michael, Nelson L.
Robb, Merlin L.
Ake, Julie A.
Nowak, Rebecca G.
Crowell, Trevor A. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5947-265X
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Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. Department of Defense (W81XWH-11-2-0174)
National Institutes of Health (R01 MH099001, R01 AI120913, R01 MH110358)
U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (NU2GGH002099)
Article History
Received: 26 February 2019
Revised: 17 January 2020
Accepted: 20 January 2020
First Online: 19 March 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be construed to represent the positions of the U.S. Army or the Department of Defense or the Department of Health and Human Services.
: 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.
: All participants provided written informed consent prior to enrollment. The study was reviewed and approved by the Ministry of Defence Health Research Ethics Committee, Abuja, Nigeria; Walter Reed Army Institute of Research Institutional Review Board (IRB), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; and the University of Maryland IRB, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. The investigators have adhered to the policies for protection of human subjects as prescribed in AR-70.