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Received: 26 March 2024

Accepted: 20 August 2024

First Online: 2 September 2024

Declarations

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: The conduct of this study was approved by the Makerere University School of Biomedical Sciences Research and Ethics Committee (SBSREC) under reference number SBS 774. The SBSREC is the research ethics committee for the School of Biomedical Sciences which is one of the schools under the Makerere University College of Health Sciences. The study was also approved by the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (Ref: HS1161ES). All study participants provided written informed consent before enrolment into the study.

: All study participants Provided written informed consent to have their data used, without any identifiers, for any publications resulting from this study. The study nurses also provided written informed consent to have their images and personal data published as part of this manuscript.

: Not applicable.

: DK and NK have declared a conflict of interest due to an outside interest in ArgosMD. DK and NK are the inventors of the patent application related to the confocal endoscopy technology used in the Smartphone Confocal Mirco-Endoscope (SCME) device used in this study. NK and DK have the right to receive royalties as a result of a technology licensing agreement between the University of Arizona and Argos MD. DK also serves as a scientific advisor to ArgosMD.All the other authors declare that they have no competing interests.