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D’Mello-Guyett, Lauren https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8174-1737
Greenland, Katie
Bonneville, Sharla
D’hondt, Rob
Mashako, Maria
Gorski, Alexandre
Verheyen, Dorien
Van den Bergh, Rafael
Maes, Peter
Checchi, Francesco
Cumming, Oliver
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Received: 21 May 2020
Accepted: 15 July 2020
First Online: 24 July 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was approved by the ethics board at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (No. 14425) and by the School of Public Health at the University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (No. 67/CNES/BN/PMMF/2018). The ethics board at Médecins Sans Frontières also provided approval of a generic protocol for the study (No. 1805c).Written informed consent was obtained from all study participants. All consent forms were available in French, English and the local language of Tshiluba. Consent forms were provided in the language appropriate for the participant. Participant interviews were transcribed and de-identified. All data was kept confidential.
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: On behalf of all authors, there are no competing interests to declare that could be construed to have influenced the work. The authors alone are responsible for their views expressed in this article and they do not represent the views, decisions or policies of the institutions with which they are associated. Authors from MSF (SB, RD, MM, AG, DV, RVDB, and PM) contributed independently in their own rights as individuals.
