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Namwano, Sylivia
Lubega, Jude T.
Mirembe, Drake Patrick
Akwango-Aliau, Damalie
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Received: 1 October 2025
Accepted: 8 May 2026
First Online: 21 May 2026
Declarations
Ethics approval and consent to participate: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Institutional Review Board (IRB) and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards: Nkumba University School of Postgraduate Studies and Research (Ref: NU/DPSR/REC/2023), Mildmay Uganda Research Ethics Committee (MUREC, Ref: MUREC-2023-207), Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNCST, Ref: SIR243ES), and informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. [NOTE: all participants were above 18].
Consent for publication: The authors affirm that human research participants provided informed consent for publication of the images in Figs. , and . The participants were informed that their images would be published in an online and/or print journal.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
