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Abera, Semaw Ferede https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9284-1231
Kantelhardt, Eva Johanna
Bezabih, Afework Mulugeta
Tsadik, Mache
Lauvai, Judith
Ejeta, Gebisa
Wienke, Andreas
Frank, Jan
Scherbaum, Veronika
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of Ethiopia (CDC-Ethiopia) through Ethiopian Public Health Association
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Article History
Received: 19 December 2019
Accepted: 29 July 2020
First Online: 8 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Ethiopian Science and Technology Agency ethically approved the ongoing surveillance project, KA-HDSS, with the ethical approval identification number of IERC-0030. Before the start of the data collection, the data collectors introduced themselves to the participants, gave information on the purpose of the study. Next, they explained to the study participants that they have the right to not participate or stop the interview at any time in the interview process if they want to decline from participating in the study. The process of data collection started following the study participants’ verbal consent. The research tools, including the verbal consent procedures, were ethically approved. The interviewers are residents of the surveillance population, who actually were familiar with the culture of the community, helped for the proper implementation of the consent procedures. Additional ethical approval was also obtained from the Health Research Ethics Review Committee (HRERC) in Mekelle University (Reference number = ERC 1364/2019).
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
