Alcaide, Maria L.
Ramlagan, Shandir
Rodriguez, Violeta J.
Cook, Ryan
Peltzer, Karl
Weiss, Stephen M.
Sifunda, Sibusiso
Jones, Deborah L.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (R01HD078187-S)
National Institutes of Health (P30AI073961)
Article History
First Online: 30 March 2017
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: All authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest.
: Ethical approval was granted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) Research Ethics Committee (REC), protocol approval number REC4/21/08/13. Study approval was also obtained from the Department of Health REC, Mpumalanga Provincial Government, South Africa and the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Institutional Review Board. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were also 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.
: Voluntary informed consent was provided by all individual participants prior to enrollment and participation in any study procedures.