Article History
Received: 10 January 2020
Accepted: 3 June 2020
First Online: 22 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Malawi Health Research Committee determined that ethical approval was not deemed necessary in this study considering the fact that the study used data from a research study already approved by an ethical research committee. According to the 2010 and 2015-16 MDHS report [,], the MDHS study was ethically approved by Malawi Health Research Committee, Institutional Review Board of ICF Macro, Centre for Disease and Control (CDC) in Atlanta, GA, USA and Prevention IRB. Informed consent was obtained from all eligible persons.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.