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Article History

Received: 4 March 2022

Accepted: 9 August 2022

First Online: 12 August 2022

Declarations

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: This study has been approved by the Rwanda National Ethics Committee Rwanda (No.112/RNEC/2021), the University of Rwanda, College of Medicine and Health Sciences’ Institutional Review Board, and the ethics committee of the Kigali University Teaching Hospital (EC/CHUK/080/2021). Informed consents will be obtained from each study participant. Confidentiality of the participants will be maintained at all times. No identifying information will be stored by the research team, reducing the risk of breaches of confidentiality. Questionnaires will be number-coded thereby keeping the identity of the participants anonymous. Given the focus on sensitive clinical data, it is important to govern data adequately and ensure appropriate management of the data. Therefore, the consortium will specifically address the data governance matters, from the sources of data, their integration and use ensuring suitable privacy protection and information governance. No patient data will be shared even anonymized. As the IDRC embraces the principle of sharing research data and encourages researchers to make their data openly available, the researchers will be able to access data where they get only the aggregated data (no data download). Each individual will need to register and request access to the whole or a part of data available from the common analytical interface. He or She will sign data access agreement, limited by the research project duration. Research findings will also be made accessible to research participants through a login credentials, but also findings will be disseminated to participants through various media. This study will be carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations in the Ethical Declarations.

: Not applicable.

: The authors report no conflict of interest.