Woodward, Aniek http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1560-4208
Lake, Euphemia Gooding
Rajaraman, Natarajan
Leather, Andrew
Article History
Received: 7 January 2018
Accepted: 25 July 2018
First Online: 15 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Participants were provided with an information sheet that explained the aims of the study and related risks and benefits. All participants gave written consent. Ethical approval was granted for 3 years by the King’s College London Ethics Committee (PNM/12/13–74) on 19 February 2013 and the Sierra Leone Ethics and Scientific Review Committee on 24 July 2013. In February 2016 both Committees gave a one-year extension to complete follow-up data collection.
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