van Breevoort, Dorothee https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3122-0252
Tognon, Francesca
Beguin, Arne
Ngegbai, Amara S.
Putoto, Giovanni
van den Broek, Ankie
Funding for this research was provided by:
Doctors with Africa CUAMM
Article History
Received: 23 June 2020
Accepted: 13 May 2021
First Online: 26 May 2021
Declarations
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: The study was granted ethical approval by the Sierra Leone Ethics and Scientific Review Committee and the KIT Research Ethical Committee of the KIT Royal Tropical Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (n. S88).No participant was coerced to participate in the study. Interviewees were not named either in the questionnaires or the interviews. All data were handled confidentially, and participants cannot be traced by people outside of the research group. All participants were asked to sign a written consent form in the appropriate language (English or Krio) before taking part in the study. Literate witnesses signed on behalf of participants who were illiterate, with the latter signing using their thumb prints.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.