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Brabin, Loretta https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4478-6503
Roberts, Stephen A.
Gies, Sabine
Nelson, Andrew
Diallo, Salou
Stewart, Christopher J.
Kazienga, Adama
Birtles, Julia
Ouedraogo, Sayouba
Claeys, Yves
Tinto, Halidou
d’Alessandro, Umberto
Faragher, E. Brian
Brabin, Bernard
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Number U01HD061234-01A1; Supplementary -05S1 and -02S2),)
National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements (U01HD061234-01A1; Supplementary -05S1 and -02S2)
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Article History
Received: 26 April 2017
Accepted: 27 October 2017
First Online: 23 November 2017
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The clinical protocol was approved by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, Research Ethics Committee (LSTM/REC), the Institutional Review Board of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (IRB/ITM), the Antwerp University Hospital Ethics Committee (EC/UZA), the Institutional Ethics Committee of Centre Muraz (Comité d’Ethique Institutionnel du Centre Muraz, CEI/CM), and the National Ethics Committee (Comité Ethique pour la Recherche en Santé, CERS) in Burkina Faso.Prior to enrolment, the study team visited each village to inform village elders and senior women about trial objectives and for permission to invite young women to take part. Informed consent with right to withdraw (signature or thumb print) was granted by each participant, or by her appointed guardian if a minor or married at recruitment, and repeated later by participants continuing to be followed in the pregnant cohort.
: Participants provided written informed consent for publication of research results.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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