Muhumuza, Richard
Ssemata, Andrew Sentoogo
Kakande, Ayoub
Ahmed, Nadia
Atujuna, Millicent
Nomvuyo, Mangxilana
Bekker, Linda-Gail
Dietrich, Janan Janine
Tshabalala, Gugulethu
Hornschuh, Stefanie
Maluadzi, Mamakiri
Chibanda-Stranix, Lynda
Nematadzira, Teacler
Weiss, Helen Anne
Nash, Stephen
Fox, Julie
Seeley, Janet http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0583-5272
Funding for this research was provided by:
European and Developing Countries Clinical Trials Partnership (00)
Article History
Received: 5 March 2020
Revised: 29 October 2020
Accepted: 30 October 2020
First Online: 5 May 2021
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: All authors declare they have no conflict of interest.
: This study was performed in line with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval was granted by the Uganda Virus Research Institute Research and Ethics Committee (date; ref. no.) (March 13, 2018; GC127/18/3/638); Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (June 18, 2018; SS 4579); the Joint Research Ethics Committee for the University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences and the Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals (JREC) (October 1, 2018; JREC/195/18); the Medical Research Council of Zimbabwe (MRCZ) and the Research Council of Zimbabwe (December 8, 2018; MRCZ/A/2356); the University of Cape Town Human Research Ethics Committee (August 8, 2018; 290/2018); and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (October 26, 2018, 15629).
: Participants provided written informed consent for those above 18 years, written assent and parental consent for those below 18 years. A waiver of parental consent was obtained for emancipated minor participants basing on the national guidelines in the three countries.