Bofu, Ramadhani M.
Santos, Ellen M.
Msugupakulya, Betwel J.
Kahamba, Najat F.
Swilla, Joseph D.
Njalambaha, Rukiyah
Kelly, Ann H.
Lezaun, Javier
Christofides, Nicola
Okumu, Fredros O.
Finda, Marceline F.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Ifakara Health Institute as part of the MSc studentship award (Ref.# IHI/TC/BAG/2020/108)
Kings College London ESRC Impact Accelerator Ward
Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa (CARTA). (Grant No. G-19-57145)
Sida (Grant No:54100113)
Uppsala Monitoring Center, Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad), and by the Wellcome Trust (reference no. 107768/Z/15/Z)
UK Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
British Academy, ‘Knowledge Frontier’s scheme (Grant Number: KF3/100047)
Article History
Received: 31 December 2022
Accepted: 16 February 2023
First Online: 27 February 2023
Declarations
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: Ethical approvals for this project was obtained from Ifakara Health Institute’s Institutional Review Board (Protocol ID: IHI/IRB/EXT/No: 015-2018) and the Medical Research Coordinating Committee (MRCC) at the National Institute for Medical Research (Protocol ID: NIMR/HQ/R.8a/Vol.IX/2697), in Tanzania. Written consent was obtained from all participants of this study, after they had been informed of the purpose and procedure of the discussions. Permission to publish this study was obtained from NIMR, ref: NIMR/HQ/P.12 VOL XXXV/85.
: The authors declare no competing interests.