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Authors
Kalungi, Allan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2890-0145
Kinyanda, Eugene
Womersley, Jacqueline S.
Joloba, Moses L.
Ssembajjwe, Wilber
Nsubuga, Rebecca N.
Kaleebu, Pontiano
Levin, Jonathan
Kidd, Martin
Seedat, Soraya
Hemmings, Sian M. J.
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
MRC/DfID African Research Leader Award (MR/L004623/1)
Alliance for Global Health and Science of the Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases (50288/N7145)
Africa Center of Excellence in Materials, Product Development and Nanotechnology (Project ID: P151847, IDA Number:5797-UG)
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Article History
Received: 9 December 2020
Accepted: 14 December 2020
First Online: 6 January 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study obtained ethics approval from the Health Research Committee of Stellenbosch University (# S17/09/179) and the higher Degrees Research & Ethics Committee, School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University (# SBS 421). The parent study (CHAKA) obtained ethics approval from the Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) Science and Ethical Committee (# GC/127/15/06/459) and the Uganda National Council of Science and Technology (# HS 1601). All parents/caregivers provided written informed consent for their children or adolescents to participate in the study and for a blood specimen to be withdrawn from them for the TL and other genetics analyses. Adolescents further provided written informed assent to participate in the study.
: No details, images or videos relating to any of the study subjects are included in this manuscript.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
