Kokou-Kpolou, Cyrille Kossigan https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2335-2132
Derivois, Daniel
Rousseau, Cécile
Balayulu-Makila, Oléa
Hajizadeh, Saba
Birangui, Jean-Pierre
Guerrier, Mireille
Bukaka, Jacqueline
Cénat, Jude Mary https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3628-6904
Funding for this research was provided by:
International Development Research Center (# 108968)
Article History
Received: 1 June 2021
Revised: 8 December 2021
Accepted: 24 January 2022
First Online: 5 August 2022
Declarations
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: Conceptualization: CKKK, JMC; Methodology, Software and Formal analysis: CKKK, MG; Validation: CR, DD, JMC; Investigation: OBM, JB, JPB; Data Curation: MG, JMC; Writing—Original Draft Preparation: CKKK; Writing—Review & Editing: SH, CR, JMC; Visualization: JPB, CR, DD, JMC; Supervision & Funding acquisition: JMC.
: The authors declare they have no financial interests.
: 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. In addition, the study protocol was approved by the ethics boards of the University of Ottawa and the Institut National pour la Recherche Biomédicale-INRB (National Institute for Biomedical Research) of the DRC.
: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.