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Khan, Uzma http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3602-5950
Huerga, Helena
Khan, Aamir J.
Mitnick, Carole D.
Hewison, Catherine
Varaine, Francis
Bastard, Mathieu
Rich, Michael
Franke, Molly F.
Atwood, Sidney
Khan, Palwasha Y.
Seung, Kwonjune J.
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Unitaid
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Article History
Received: 29 July 2018
Accepted: 13 August 2019
First Online: 20 August 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Partners Healthcare Human Research Committee (Boston, MA, USA), the MSF Ethics Review Board (Geneva, Switzerland), IRD Institutional Review Board (Karachi, Pakistan) and in all 17 implementing countries by appropriate government authorities or local ethics committees (Armenia: Ethics Committee of Yerevan State Medical University after Mkhitar Heratsi; Bangladesh: Ethical Committee, National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital; Belarus: Ethics Committees of the Republican Scientific and Practical Centre of Pulmonology and Tuberculosis; DPRK: Ministry of Public Health; Ethiopia: National Research Ethics Review Committee of Ministry of Scient and Technology; Georgia: Ethics Committee of National Center for Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases; Haiti: Comité Des Droits Humains Des Centres GHESKIO, Zanmi Lasante Research Committee; Indonesia: Ethics Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia; Kazakhstan: National Scientific Center of Phthisiopulmonology of the Ministry of Health; Kenya: The Scientific and Ethics Review Unit, Kenya Medical Research Institute; Kyrgyzstan: Committee on Bioethics under the MoH of the Kyrgyz Republic; Lesotho: Ministry of Health Research and Ethics Committee; Myanmar: Ethics Review Committee, Department of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Sports; Pakistan: IRD Institutional Review Board; Peru: Institutional Research Ethics Committee at the Peruvian University of Cayetano Heredia; South Africa:Bio Medical Research Ethics Committee, University of KwaZulu-Natal; Vietnam: Sciences and Ethical Committee of the National Lung Hospital and Independent Ethics Committee, Ministry of Health). The study is registered on ExternalRef removed (NCT03259269).Informed written consent is solicited from patients or a guardian in the case of minors, as defined by local legal requirements. Those who do not consent to their data being used for research still receive treatment with bedaquiline or delamanid per national and site protocols.
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: CDM is an editorial board member for BMC Infectious Diseases. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
