Achwoka, Dunstan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0267-7544
Waruru, Anthony
Chen, Tai-Ho
Masamaro, Kenneth
Ngugi, Evelyn
Kimani, Maureen
Mukui, Irene
Oyugi, Julius O.
Mutave, Regina
Achia, Thomas
Katana, Abraham
Ng’ang’a, Lucy
De Cock, Kevin M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (GH000069-05 and U2GGH001520)
Article History
Received: 17 November 2018
Accepted: 27 March 2019
First Online: 3 April 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Kenya Medical Research Institute’s Scientific and Ethics Review Unit, the Kenyatta National Hospital - University of Nairobi Ethics Review Committee as part of a nested study, and the Committee on Human Research of the University of California, San Francisco. This study was reviewed according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) human research protection procedures and was determined to be and approved as research, but CDC was not engaged. As this research was retrospective, consent from study participants was not required.
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