Sands, Kirsty http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5049-4481
Carvalho, Maria J.
Spiller, Owen B.
Portal, Edward A. R.
Thomson, Kathryn
Watkins, William John
Mathias, Jordan
Dyer, Calie
Akpulu, Chinenye
Andrews, Robert
Ferreira, Ana
Hender, Thomas
Milton, Rebecca
Nieto, Maria
Zahra, Rabaab
Shirazi, Haider
Muhammad, Adil
Akif, Shermeen
Jan, Muhammad Hilal
Iregbu, Kenneth
Modibbo, Fatima
Uwaezuoke, Stella
Chan, Grace J.
Bekele, Delayehu
Solomon, Semaria
Basu, Sulagna
Nandy, Ranjan Kumar
Naha, Sharmi
Mazarati, Jean-Baptiste
Rucogoza, Aniceth
Gaju, Lucie
Mehtar, Shaheen
Bulabula, Andre N. H.
Whitelaw, Andrew
Walsh, Timothy R.
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1119772)
Article History
Received: 9 May 2022
Accepted: 15 June 2022
First Online: 1 July 2022
Declarations
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: Ethical approval was obtained at each of the seven participating countries (Additional fileInternalRef removed: Table S1). Bangladesh: Ethical Review Committee, Bangladesh Institute of Child Health (BICH-ERC-4/3/2015), Ethiopia: Boston Children's Hospital (IRB-P00023058), India: Institutional Ethics Committee, National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases and Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, IPGME&R Research Oversight Committee (A-I/2016-IEC and Inst/IEC/2016/508), Nigeria: Kano State Hospitals Management Board (8/10/1437AH), Health Research Ethics Committee (HREC) and National Hospital, Abuja (NHA/EC/017/2015), Pakistan: Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) Islamabad (Ref No NA, signed letter from Prof. Tabish Hazir). Rwanda: Republic of Rwanda, National Ethics Committee (No342/RNEC/2015), South Africa: Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Research projects, Western Cape Government (N15/07/063). In local languages, research nurses provided mothers with study information and collected consent for mother and/or neonatal enrolment. Informed consent was obtained in writing unless this was not possible (due to literacy barriers), and oral consent was collected from the mothers by trained researchers. Verbal consent was approved for use as informed consent if written consent was not possible by each committee and this was documented by the participant signing/marking the consent form.
: Not applicable.
: The authors have no competing interests to declare.