Ogar, Comfort K. http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0448-7111
Quick, Jonathan
Gilbert, Hannah N.
Vreman, Rick A.
Mantel-Teeuwisse, Aukje K.
Mugunga, Jean Claude
Funding for this research was provided by:
Society of Fellows, Harvard University
Article History
Accepted: 6 February 2023
First Online: 22 February 2023
Declarations
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: Comfort K. Ogar received funds from Harvard University and the Ronda Stryker and William Johnston MMSc Fellowship in Global Health Delivery to undertake the research work as part of her master’s thesis work. However, no funding support was received for the writing of the manuscript. The Global Health and Social Medicine (GHSM) department of Harvard Medical School (HMS) paid the fee for open access publication of this article.
: Comfort K. Ogar received funds from Harvard University and the Ronda Stryker and William Johnston MMSc Fellowship in Global Health Delivery to undertake the research work as part of her master’s thesis work. No funding support was received for the writing of the manuscript. Jean Claude Mugunga, Hannah N. Gilbert, Jonathan Quick, Rick A. Vreman, and Aukje K. Mantel-Teeuwisse declare no conflict of interest.
: The Harvard Institutional Review Board (IRB) determined that the quantitative study was not human subject research under 45 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 46.102(e), and additional IRB review was not required. The Nigerian Health Research and Ethics Committee (NHREC) also determined that the quantitative study meets the criteria for exemption under the National Code for Health Research Ethics and was exempt from the NHREC oversight. Because it involved secondary analyses of de-identified data, informed consent was not obtained. Similarly, the Harvard IRB determined that the qualitative study meets the criteria for exemption under the regulations found at 45 CFR 46.104(d) (2) and as such did not require further IRB review. The NHREC reviewed and approved the qualitative study and written informed consent with the following approval number NHREC/01/01/2007-03/08/2021.
: The quantitative study was secondary analyses of de-identified data and did not require informed consent. All participants in the qualitative study provided written informed consent to participate prior to the interview.
: Not applicable. No participant information is contained in the article, and therefore, consent for publication was not sought from participants.
: The datasets generated during and/or analyzed during the current study are not publicly available due to confidentiality requirements for handling reports of adverse reactions but may be made available from the corresponding author on reasonable request upon approval from the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC).
: Not applicable.
: CKO conceived the study and developed the protocol for the study. JCM, HNG, RAV, and AKM-T reviewed the protocol. CKO analyzed the data and drafted the manuscript. JCM, HNG, JQ, RAV, and AKM-T reviewed and approved the data analysis and manuscript. All authors read and approved the final version.