Mensah, Benedicta Ayiedu
Mensah-Brown, Henrietta E.
Partey, Frederica D.
Addo, Christabel
Buah, Gertrude
Afudego, Gifty A.
Okyere, Daniel
Tetteh, Mary
Boateng, Ernest
Wilson, Michael
Paintsil, Elijah
Funding for this research was provided by:
NIH Office for AIDS Research (OAR) and NIDA (FIC D43TW010540)
Article History
Received: 17 October 2024
Accepted: 10 March 2025
First Online: 18 March 2025
Declarations
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: This study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research Institutional Review Board (NMIMR-IRB CPN 047/22–23) and the Ghana Health Service Ethical Review Board (GHS-ERC: 001/12/22). Since this study used secondary data, permission to access data was obtained from the Ghana National AIDS Control Programme and the two ethical review boards. Informed consent was not required because patients’ records were anonymized before access and each record was identified by a unique identity (ID) number. The study was conducted following the latest Declaration of Helsinki and Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.