Sambiéni, N’koué Emmanuel
Article History
First Online: 15 June 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: In Burkina Faso, the methodology was submitted to and validated by the National Research Ethics Committee on December 3, 2014, under the reference DELIBERATION N° 2014-1-145. This deliberation was transmitted to the Sahel Regional Health Director, who emitted the authorization for a survey. In Palestine, the research protocol was submitted to and validated by the Helsinki Committee for Ethical Approval, a member of the Palestinian Health Research Council, on April 6, 2015, under the reference PHRC/HC/38/15. In Peru, the methodology was submitted to the Comité Institucional de Ética of the Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia and was validated on July 23, 2015 (Constancia 364–09–15, código de inscripción 15,003). In DRC, the study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the School of Public Health of the University of Kinshasa, under the file number ESP/CE/011/2015 dated February 6, 2015.
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