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Article History

Received: 30 May 2023

Accepted: 1 November 2023

First Online: 8 November 2023

Declarations

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: The National Health Research Ethics Committee of Nigeria (NHREC) granted ethical approval for this study [NHREC Assigned Number: NHREC/01/01/2007]. Additionally, we secured the approval of the ethical committees of Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe States’ Ministries of Health. Further, we obtained the permission of the IDPs camps management prior to data collection in the camps. We explained the purpose and benefit of the research in local language to study participants and assured them of voluntary participation and opportunity to withdraw from the study at any time without prejudice in line with Helsinki Declaration [CitationRef removed]. We obtained informed consent from all study participants before the interviews and maintained confidentiality during and after the study. Importantly, we were mindful of the peculiarities of health research ethics in humanitarian context as documented in the literature [CitationRef removed].

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare no competing interests.