Kaida, Angela http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0329-1926
Dietrich, Janan J.
Laher, Fatima
Beksinska, Mags
Jaggernath, Manjeetha
Bardsley, Megan
Smith, Patricia
Cotton, Laura
Chitneni, Pooja
Closson, Kalysha
Lewis, David A.
Smit, Jenni A.
Ndung’u, Thumbi
Brockman, Mark
Gray, Glenda
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian HIV Vaccine Initiative (N/A)
South African Medical Research Council (N/A)
Article History
Received: 30 July 2018
Accepted: 13 September 2018
First Online: 3 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All participants aged 18–24 years provided voluntary informed consent at enrollment. For participants aged 16–17 years, parents/legal guardians provided voluntary written informed consent and the participant provided voluntary informed assent. Ethical approval was provided by the Office of Research Ethics (ORE) at Simon Fraser University (Canada), the Witwatersrand Human Research Ethics Committee (Wits HREC - Medical) at the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), and the Biomedical Research Ethics Committee (BREC) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa).
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: The authors declare no conflicts of interest. This research was previously presented at: (1) the 2016 HIVR4P conference in Chicago, USA as a poster; and (2) the 2017 International Women and HIV Workshop in Boston, USA as a guided poster.
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