Document is current

Article History

Received: 26 October 2020

Accepted: 4 October 2021

First Online: 23 October 2021

Declarations

:

: The BIRDY study was approved by the ethics committees of Madagascar (068-MSANP/CE), Senegal (SEN 14-20), Cambodia (108 NEHCR) and was authorized by the Institutional Review Board of Institut Pasteur, Paris, France (IRB/2016/08/3). Permission to access raw data was granted by the Institutional Review Board of Institut PasteurAll participants gave their informed consent for the access and analysis of the raw data. All analysis were performed at Pasteur institute in Dakar. Women were included after receiving information about the project, agreeing to biological sampling on themselves, and signing an informed consent form. Data were anonymized: each participant was assigned a unique identifier composed of a number (incremented according to the chronological order of inclusion in the study) and the initials of the place of recruitment. All information (date of birth, address, first and last name) allowing the identification of participants are kept in a local database set up under the unilateral responsibility of the local epidemiological coordinators, whose access will be protected by a password. Only those involved in the local operational management of the project have access to this personal information. 

: Not Applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.