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Authors
Chetty-Mhlanga, Shala
Basera, Wisdom
Fuhrimann, Samuel
Probst-Hensch, Nicole
Delport, Steven
Mugari, Mufaro
Van Wyk, Jennifer
Röösli, Martin
Dalvie, Mohamed Aqiel https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2192-0901
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
South African National Research Foundation SARChi Chair Programme (UID: 94883)
Swiss State Secretariat for Education
Universität Basel
Swiss Tropical Public Health Institute
South African Medical Research Council (None)
The South African National Research Foundation (UID: 9i565, 113999, 115311)
The Department of Science and Technology, South Africa (DST/CON 014/2017)
The SwissGovernment Federation (None)
The Swiss - African Research Cooperation (SARECO) (None)
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Article History
Received: 27 March 2018
Accepted: 29 June 2018
First Online: 11 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Parents or guardians of the participants as well as farm-owner were required to provide signed permission to be a part of this study and written consent. The participant learner were required to provide written assent once their parent’s consent was received and before any data was collected. Primary ethical principles based on the Helskinki Declaration [ ], will be considered for the benefit and protection of subjects in this study.The ethical protocols for the study on pesticide exposure and reproductive health outcomes has been approved by the University of Cape Town’s Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC reference number: 234/2009). An amendment was made to this protocol for the addition of neurobehavioral outcome and submitted for ethical clearance, which was approved on May 2017 by the University of Cape Town’s Human Research Ethics Committee (reference: 234/2009). The Ethics Committee of the Northwest and Central Switzerland (EKNS) reviewed and confirmed ethical and scientific standards of the study in November 2017 (reference: EKNS 2017–01683). The Western Cape Education Department has provided approval and consent to conduct this study amongst the children who attend school in these study areas (reference: 20150629–846). An additional ethical protocol for the farm-owner questionnaire and the environmental assessment was approved by HREC on the October 2017 (reference number: 597/2017).
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