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Mutambo, Chipo http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9278-9667
Shumba, Kemist http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7081-1413
Hlongwana, Khumbulani W. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1777-0402
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Received: 22 May 2019
Accepted: 30 September 2019
First Online: 21 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical clearance for this study was obtained from the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Biomedical Research Ethics Committee (BREC) (Approval BE 298/18) and Directorate for Health Research and knowledge management (KZ_201809_011). Gate keeper persions were obtained from the HIV, AIDS and STIs Directorate at the KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health Provincial Office and the Zoë-life Directorate, respectively. We sought written informed consent from all adult participants prior to conducting the respective interviews. We also sought parental consent in writing. Lastly, we obtained child-assent from all the children that participated in the study using a child-friendly story-based information sheet and assent form.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. The authors declare that they have no financial or personal relationship(s) that may have inappropriately influenced them in writing this article.
