Sethi, Reena
Hill, Kathleen
Stalls, Suzanne
Moffson, Susan
de Tejada, Sandra Saenz
Gomez, Leonel
Marroquin, Miguel Angel
Funding for this research was provided by:
United States Agency for International Development (AID-OAA-A-14-00028, AID-OAA-A-14-00028, AID-OAA-A-14-00028, AID-OAA-A-14-00028, AID-OAA-A-14-00028, AID-OAA-A-14-00028, AID-OAA-A-14-00028)
Article History
Received: 5 August 2021
Accepted: 22 February 2022
First Online: 3 May 2022
Declarations
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: The research was approved by the Zugueme Committee of Ethics and was considered not to be human subjects research by the Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health’s Institutional Review Board. All methods were performed in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations. Informed consent was obtained from all participants in the study (written consent for literate participants and oral consent for illiterate participants). The research team explained the study objectives to participants and asked them if they wished to participate. All participants were informed about confidentiality, future data storage and their right to end the interview or survey, or to exit the FGD, at any time, and for any reason, with no repercussions. Informed consent was obtained from the subject’s parent and/or legal guardian for minors under 18 and illiterate subjects. The recruitment and data collection took place from April to May 2018.
: Consent for publication was also obtained from the participants and from the subject’s parent and/or legal guardian for minors under 18 and illiterate subjects.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.