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Article History

Received: 13 September 2018

Accepted: 7 August 2019

First Online: 22 August 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Oversight of research in Uganda involving human subjects requires two levels of approval: (1) approval is required at the organizational level by Mildmay Research Ethics Committee and (2) approval is required at the national level by the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology in collaboration with the Uganda National Health Research Organization. Both levels were obtained, alongside full review by the Harvard School of Public Health Institutional Review Board and exemption from review by University College Dublin. All participating health care workers and patients provided written informed consent.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. The study sponsor is the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. This trial is funded by a grant from the UBS Optimus Foundation to the NGO We Care Solar (WCS), and contracted to Innovations for Poverty Action, the Harvard School of Public Health, and University College Dublin to conduct the independent impact evaluation. The UBS Optimus Foundation reviewed the trial study design, while WCS reviewed and provided feedback on the trial study design, data collection tools and protocol manuscript. The independent impact evaluation team will share manuscripts for publication from the study with WCS prior to submission, but neither UBS nor WCS will have any input on data analysis, interpretation or writing of the manuscripts from this trial, including the final trial report. Neither UBS nor WCS will have authority over the decision to submit manuscripts for publication.