Horwood, C.
Haskins, L.
Engebretsen, I.
Connolly, C.
Coutsoudis, A.
Spies, L.
Funding for this research was provided by:
ELMA Foundation (14-F0014)
Article History
Received: 26 August 2019
Accepted: 23 March 2020
First Online: 3 April 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval was obtained from the Biomedical Research ethics committee (BREC) at University of KwaZulu-Natal (BE064/14) and from the KZN Department of Health. Our ethics approval included permission to request informed consent from mothers aged 15–17 years without parental consent, to ensure that representation of younger mothers in the sample. Permission to undertake the study was obtained from KZN Department of Health, district managers in all districts, and facility managers in participating clinics. All participants provided written informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.