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Article History

Received: 26 October 2022

Accepted: 26 October 2023

First Online: 11 November 2023

Declarations

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: This research was approved by the Ethics Committee of the Catholic University of Bukavu (UCB) N° UCB / CIE / NC / 07/2017 and the Ethics Committee Hospital-Faculty Saint Luc-Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) n° 2018 / 07FEV / 046.An informed consent form was submitted to each study participant and signed. All participants were above 16 years of age. Research participants gave their oral informed consent to the author in line with human subjects protocols at the Catholic University of Bukavu and the Catholic University of Louvain. Oral consent procedures have been documented by the author. All methods were carried out following the Declaration of Helsinki.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.