Kelbore, Abraham Getachew http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9540-8671
Owiti, Philip
Reid, Anthony J.
Bogino, Efa Ambaw
Wondewosen, Lantesil
Dessu, Blen Kassahun
Funding for this research was provided by:
United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID); La FondationVeuve Emile Metz-Tesch supported open access publications costs
Article History
Received: 6 December 2018
Accepted: 28 March 2019
First Online: 8 April 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Permission to carry out the study was obtained from the Wolaita Sodo Teaching and Referral Hospital. Local ethics approval was obtained from the Ethics Committee of the College of Health Sciences and Medicine, Wolaita Sodo University, Wolaita Sodo, Ethiopia. The study was also approved by the Ethics Advisory Group of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease, Paris, France. As this was a record review study with anonymized data, the issue of informed patient consent did not apply.
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