Funding for this research was provided by:
University of the Witwatersrand
Article History
Accepted: 18 January 2023
First Online: 28 February 2023
Declarations
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: No conflicts of interest to declare.
: Ethical clearance was sought from the Ethical Review Committee of the Cape Coast Teaching Hospital (CCTHERC/EC/2020/081) and the Wits Human Research Ethics Committee (M2011122). This is a publication from the corresponding author’s Master of Science dissertation at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. The study has been performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments. The two ethics committees did not require the authors to obtain consent from the women and infants whose clinical data were used for the study since it was an analysis of existing data.
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