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Received: 14 April 2025

Accepted: 3 June 2025

First Online: 2 July 2025

Declarations

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: Ethics approval for this study (Version 2.0 dated 14th March 2024) was obtained from Makerere University School of Public Health Research and Ethics Committee (SPH-2024-552), Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (HS4136ES) and the Queen Mary University of London Research Ethics Committee in the UK (QME24.0514). Approval for any protocol amendments will be sought from Makerere University School of Public Health Research and Ethics Committee. Notification of any amendments will be made to the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology and Queen Mary University of London Research Ethics Committee. All participants will provide informed consent to participate in the study before taking part in any study related activities/ procedures. Children aged 8 years and above will provide assent, in addition to consent by their parents/caregivers (supplementary file ). Each participant will have a study number that will be used as the identifier. Only anonymised data will be collected on the questionnaires. All the information will be kept confidential. The identifiable data will only be accessed by the research team. Data protection and sharing will adhere to the Data Protection and Privacy Act 2019 of the Republic of Uganda.The trial activities are overseen by a 8-member Trial Steering Committee (TSC) comprising an independent chair, 2 independent members, a lay member, a representative from the funder (observer), representative from Makerere University where the study is anchored (observer) and one policymaker’s representative from the Ministry of Health. The study principal investigator and co-principal investigator are also members of the TSC. The TSC meetings will be held at least every 6 months to review study progress.

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: The authors declare no competing interests.