Okawa, Sumiyo
Mwanza-Kabaghe, Sylvia
Mwiya, Mwiya
Kikuchi, Kimiyo
Jimba, Masamine
Kankasa, Chipepo
Ishikawa, Naoko
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Grant for National Center for Global Health and Medicine (26-2 and 28-1)
Article History
Received: 27 December 2017
Accepted: 9 March 2018
First Online: 27 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: We obtained ethical approval from the Biomedical Research Ethics Committee of the University of Zambia and the Institutional Ethics Committee of National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Japan. We obtained written informed consent from all participants and written assent from parents or primary caregivers of adolescents aged 15, 16, and 17 years. To ensure confidentiality of the participants, we did not collect their identifying information.
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