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Authors
Puchalski Ritchie, Lisa M. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1791-5368
van Lettow, Monique
Makwakwa, Austine
Kip, Ester C.
Straus, Sharon E.
Kawonga, Harry
Hamid, Jemila S.
Lebovic, Gerald
Thorpe, Kevin E.
Zwarenstein, Merrick
Schull, Michael J.
Chan, Adrienne K.
Martiniuk, Alexandra
van Schoor, Vanessa
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (KAL-139700)
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Article History
Received: 12 February 2020
Accepted: 1 December 2020
First Online: 11 December 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study has been approved by the St. Michael’s Hospital Research Ethics Board (protocol #15-282) and the Malawi National Health Sciences Research Committee (protocol # 15/9/1479).LHWs in intervention sites routinely involved in care of TB patients were encouraged but not required to attend training sessions. As undergoing training is a routine expectation of health centre staff and the training and the training developed in collaboration with the National TB control program, individual consent was not required for participation in the intervention. Outcome data were taken from routinely collected Ministry of Health records, with consent from individual patients not required.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
