Tran, Bonnie Robin http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7008-3441
Davis, Anthony
Sloan, Margo
Macera, Carol
Mbuyi, Anthony Mutombe
Kabanda, Gilbert Kurhgnga
Funding for this research was provided by:
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (HU0001-17-1-0045)
Article History
Received: 9 May 2019
Accepted: 16 October 2019
First Online: 28 October 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Human subjects participated in this study after giving their free and informed consent. Each subject indicated their consent to participate or not participate by checking a box for “I consent” or “No, I do not consent” on an electronic computer tablet. This research has been conducted in compliance with all applicable federal regulations governing the protection of human subjects in research in the US (Naval Health Research Center Institutional Review Board; Protocol NHRC.2013.0024) and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur, Universitaire et Recherche Scientifique, Université de Kinshasa). The use of electronic informed consent was approved by both ethics committees.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.