Aerts, Céline
Vink, Martijn
Pashtoon, Sayed Jalal
Nahzat, Sami
Picado, Albert
Cruz, Israel
Sicuri, Elisa
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (202060457)
The government of Switzerland
UK aid from the UK government
The European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (642609)
The government of The Netherlands
Article History
First Online: 21 November 2018
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: This study was supported by funds from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 642609, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany (KfW Grant Reference no. 202060457, Development of Products for the Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment of Neglected and Poverty Related Diseases; https://www.bmbf.de/en), the UK Aid from the UK Government, the Government of Switzerland and the Government of The Netherlands, which also contributed to the Foundation For Innovative New Diagnostics participation in this work.
: Céline Aerts, Martijn Vink, Sayed Jalal Pashtoon, Sami Nahzat, Albert Picado, Israel Cruz and Elisa Sicuri have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the contents of this article.
: The study was carried out in accordance with the Helsinki Declaration, and approved by the Institutional Review Board of the National Public Health Institute, Ministry of Public Health, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (Approval No. 361549).
: The participants provided written informed consent in a one-on-one session with a member of the study. For illiterate individuals, the informed consent process was conducted in the presence of an impartial witness and for minors, the consent from a parent or guardian had to be obtained to be enrolled in the study.
: The datasets generated during and/or analysed during the current study are available in the figshare repository at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.6949043.
: IC, SP and SN provided the study concept and design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation, and study supervision. CA and ES contributed to the model design, data analysis and interpretation. CA, ES, IC, AP and MV contributed to the revision of the manuscript.