Shiras, Tess
Cumming, Oliver
Brown, Joe
Muneme, Bacelar
Nala, Rassul
Dreibelbis, Robert https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9716-0419
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Article History
Received: 7 December 2017
Accepted: 10 July 2018
First Online: 25 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All interview and focus group participants provided written informed consent for data collection and publication prior to data collection. All interview and focus group participants were at least 18 years of age. Data collectors informed participants of their right to end the data collection event at any time or skip any questions. Compound chiefs were provided with and signed a participant information sheet prior to observations but did not sign a written consent form, as observations occurred in public spaces. No personally identifiable information was collected and any names or other identifiers included in audio recordings were redacted during transcription. All audio recordings were permanently deleted.This study received approval from the Ethics Committee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Ref: 11791) and from the Republica De Moçambique Ministério da Saúde Comité Nacional de Bioética para a Saúde (IRB00002657) prior to inception of research activities.
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