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Article History

Received: 21 March 2018

Accepted: 19 November 2018

First Online: 5 December 2018

Authors’ information

: LS is Evaluation Director for the AHME Qualitative Evaluation team at the Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California San Francisco. She has a PhD in Anthropology from the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

: We received initial approval with “Exempt” status from the Institutional Review Board of the University of California San Francisco for the AHME evaluation on 13 June 2013. We also received Ghana Health Services Ethical Review Committee (ERC) approval on 28 June 2013 and Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) approval on 28 October 2013. Prior to each round of data collection the Qualitative Evaluation team submitted amendments and received approval from all three review boards for any changes made to our protocol. Approvals for Round 3 (2017) of data collection was received on 16 November 2017 from ERC, 12 December 2017 for UCSF, and 17 January 2017 for KEMRI.

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