Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation (112092)
Article History
Accepted: 20 August 2021
First Online: 1 September 2021
Declarations
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: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
: The research project was approved by The Research Ethics Committee of the North-West University, South Africa (Protocol # NWU-HS-2015–0126), and the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR) of the College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana (Protocol # NMIMR-IRB CPN 093/16–17). The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical standards of the two institutions, as well as the South African Department of Health (2015) and the Declaration of Helsinki (World Health Organisation, ).