Kimera, Emmanuel https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0836-8814
Vindevogel, Sofie
Kintu, Mugenyi Justuce
Rubaihayo, John
De Maeyer, Jessica
Reynaert, Didier
Engelen, Anne-Mie
Nuwaha, Fred
Bilsen, Johan
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fund for Applied Research, HoGent, Belgium (NA)
Article History
Received: 25 July 2019
Accepted: 10 January 2020
First Online: 17 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was obtained from Uganda National Council of Science and Technology (approval number, SS4587), the Institutional Review Board (IRB) of The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) in Uganda (approval number, TASOREC/009/18-UG-REC-009), and the ethical committee of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) in Belgium (reference number, B.U.N. 143201835870). We obtained written informed consent/assent from all participants and written informed consent from parents/caretakers of minors. No personal identifiers of participants were taken and therefore the data remained anonymous. In some few cases pseudonyms are used in the findings.
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: One author, FN is a member of the Journal editorial board. All the other authors declare no competing interests. The associate editor was independent of the peer review and editorial process.