El-Mallawany, Nader Kim https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6115-1046
Villiera, Jimmy
Kamiyango, William
Peckham-Gregory, Erin C.
Scheurer, Michael E.
Allen, Carl E.
McAtee, Casey L.
Legarreta, Alejandra
Dittmer, Dirk P.
Kovarik, Carrie L.
Chiao, Elizabeth Y.
Martin, Stephen C.
Ozuah, Nmazuo W.
Mehta, Parth S.
Kazembe, Peter N.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Cancer Institute (R21CA217137)
U.S. Public Health Service (CA019014, CA190152, CA192744)
United States Agency for International Development (674-A-00-10-00093-00)
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Article History
Received: 16 August 2018
Accepted: 31 October 2018
First Online: 9 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics committee approval was obtained from the Malawi National Health Science Research Committee and Baylor College of Medicine Institutional Review Board for Human Subjects Research. Due to the retrospective nature of this study, a waiver of consent was obtained. All data were anonymized and de-identified prior to analysis to maintain strict protection of confidentiality.
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: The authors have no competing interests to declare.
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