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Authors
Mirzazadeh, Ali https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0478-3220
Hosseini-Hooshyar, Samira
Shahesmaeili, Armita
Bahramnejad, Ali
Barshan, Adibeh
Mousavian, Ghazal
Najafi, Esmail
Sharifi, Hamid
Haghdoost, Ali-Akbar
Briceno, Alya
McFarland, Willi
Page, Kimberly
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Center for AIDS Research (P30-AI027763)
National Institute of Mental Health (R25 MH064712)
Iranian Ministry of Health (MOH)
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Article History
Received: 5 February 2020
Accepted: 22 July 2020
First Online: 5 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Research protocol and study procedures were reviewed and approved by the institutional review board of Tehran University of Medical Sciences (6/25/2016, #1395.3) and Kerman University of Medical Sciences (1/06/2016, #1394.444) and the Committee of Human Research, University of California, San Francisco (4/25/2016, #16–18626). All study team members received training in the ethical conduct of human subjects research. Participants were fully informed about the nature of the study prior to each FGD and received an IRB approved cover letter describing the study and provided written informed consent to participate. They were also informed that they can leave at any time during the discussions. For the FGDs, the consent process was also audio recorded. During FGDs, participants were assigned pseudonyms to maintain anonymity.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
