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Article History

Received: 2 August 2018

Accepted: 27 August 2018

First Online: 10 September 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Since this was not a planned study but instead a post-hoc decision to collate standard records maintained by a home for orphaned and abandoned infants, it was not deemed necessary to apply to an official research ethics review however a letter of ethics waiver was provided by the Biomedical Ethics Research Committee at the University of KwaZulu Natal on 26 July 2018.

: Permission for the information to be used for scientific purposes was provided by the legal guardians at the home (ITL ref. 001/18) and all data has been anonymised.

: The authors declare they have no competing interests.

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