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Authors
Dobreva, Zlatina https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2212-4314
Gimma, Amy
Rohan, Hana
Djoudalbaye, Benjamin
Tshangela, Akhona
Jarvis, Christopher I.
van Zandvoort, Kevin
Quaife, Matthew
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (HR is a member of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team which is funded by UK Aid from the Department of Health and Social Care and is jointly run by UK Health Security Agency and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Research Councils UK (FSHD Global Research Foundation project ‘RECAP’ managed through RCUK and ESRC (ES/P010873/1))
Department for International Development (Wellcome Epidemic Preparedness - Coronavirus research programme (ref. 221303/Z/20/Z))
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Article History
Received: 5 March 2022
Accepted: 26 August 2022
First Online: 12 October 2022
Declarations
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: Participation was voluntary, and data were anonymised. Interviewers explained the purpose of the study in the respondent’s preferred language, and informed consent was obtained before participation. Ipsos Mori, a market research company based in the UK, conducted the surveys. Ethical approvals from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicines (LSHTM) were obtained for the survey (Ref: 22486-1) and current analysis (Ref: 25945).In addition, as part of the workstream of the Partnership for Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19, ethical approvals were obtained for the following authorities in each country: Ministère de la Santé Publique - Comité National d'Éthique de la Sante (CNES) in DRC; Ministère de la Santé et de l’Hygiène Publique - Comité National d’Éthique des Sciences de la Vie et de la Sante (CNESVS) in Ivory Coast; Ministère de la Santé et de l’Action Sociale - Comité National d'Éthique pour de Recherche en Santé in Senegal; the South African Medical Association in South Africa; National Health Research Ethics Committee in Nigeria; AMREF Health Africa Ethics & Scientific Research Committee in Kenya; the Ministry of Scientific Research in Cameroon; the Makerere University School of Public Health in Uganda; Maputo City Health Directorate and the Ministry of Health in Mozambique; Excellence in Research Ethics and Science (ERES) Converge in Zambia; the Medical Research Council in Zimbabwe; and the Ministries of Health in Tunisia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Liberia, Guinea Conakry, Sudan and Morocco. We received a letter that the study did not require an approval in Egypt.
: All co-authors consented to the publication of the study.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
