Connolly, Emilia
Kasomekera, Noel
Sonenthal, Paul D.
Nyirenda, Mulinda
Marsh, Regan H.
Wroe, Emily B.
Scott, Kirstin W.
Bukhman, Alice
Minyaliwa, Tadala
Katete, Martha
Banda, Grace
Mukherjee, Joia
Rouhani, Shada A.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital
Esther B Kahn Seed Grant from the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brigham & Women's Hospital
Article History
Received: 22 May 2023
Accepted: 8 September 2023
First Online: 5 October 2023
Declarations
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: The MECC Survey protocol obtained ethical approval from the Partners Healthcare Institutional Review Board in Boston, USA (2019P003457) and the National Health Science Research Committee in Malawi (Protocol #19/05/2346, approval number 2346). The Malawi Ministry of Health also approved the study. All participants provided written informed consent and the study was conducted by the Declaration of Helsinki guidelines and regulations [CitationRef removed]. We used the STROBE cross sectional checklist when writing our report [CitationRef removed].
: NA.
: PDS reports consulting fees from the University of California-San Francisco/Sustaining Technical and Analytic Resources and funding from Unitaid (Grant SPHQ15-LOA-045). JSM is the Chief Medical Officer at Partners In Health and sits on the boards of Village Health Works (Burundi/Muso and Mali), The Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, and Free Speech for People. EC, NK, MN, RM, EBW, KS, AB, TM, MK, GB, and SAR have no competing interests.