Article History
Received: 10 March 2024
Accepted: 13 February 2025
First Online: 19 February 2025
Declarations
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: This study was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and all methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. Ethical approval was granted by the Kampala International University Research and Ethics committee (Ref: KIU-2022-190). Following approval by the KIU-REC, the trial was duly registered with the Pan African Clinical Trials Registry under the registration number PACTR202208635457430 on 31/07/2022. All participants and or their legally authorised representatives signed an informed consent form prior recruitment into the study. Noted that the protocol of this trial was published by BMC trials under the link: https://trialsjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.