Article History
Received: 20 September 2021
Revised: 14 April 2022
Accepted: 17 July 2022
First Online: 29 August 2022
Declarations
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: The authors have no relevant financial or non-financial interests to disclose.
: High international ethical standards are ensured for MEASURE DHS surveys as ethical approval from the country is obtained from a national ethical review board and local authorities before implementing the survey and well-informed verbal consent is sought from the respondents prior to data collection. For the 2018 ZDHS, ethical approval was obtained from the Inner City Fund (ICF) and the Zambia Tropical Diseases Research Centre (TDRC), institutional review boards (IRBs) (Zambia Statistics Agency, CitationRef removed). All methods of data collection were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations (Zambia Statistics Agency, CitationRef removed).