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Article History

Received: 30 May 2023

Accepted: 30 October 2023

First Online: 29 November 2023

Declarations

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: Ethical approval in Zambia has been obtained from the National Health Research Ethics Board (NHREB) at the University Teaching Hospital (ethical institution of record), the PATH Research Ethics Committee, and the Institutional Review Board at Tulane University. For the Mali trial, ethics review was undertaken by the Comite D’Ethique of the University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (ethical institution of record) and by the Ethics Committee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. For the trial in Kenya, ethical approval has been obtained from the Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Scientific and Ethics Review Unit (SERU), the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine; the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention IRB is operating on a reliance agreement with the KEMRI SERU (ethical institution of record). Consent to participate in the study was or will be obtained from all households where ATSB will be hung, as well as all individual participants in household surveys or cohort follow-up; children under the age of majority and at or above the age of assent in each setting will be asked to provide assent to participate in addition to informed consent being obtained from a parent or caretaker. Informed consent procedures, processes, and documentation follow approved procedures and tools approved by the aforementioned ethics committees in each respective trial.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.