Tsukahara, Takahiro https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4086-794X
Sugahara, Takuma
Ogura, Seiritsu
Hombhanje, Francis Wanak
Funding for this research was provided by:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JP25305023, JP19H03873)
Article History
Received: 25 July 2019
Accepted: 20 November 2019
First Online: 11 December 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Medical Research Advisory Committee of the Papua New Guinea National Department of Health (No. 14.22) and the Tokyo Women’s Medical University Ethical Committee (No. 1744). It was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and the recommendations of those committees, with written informed consent obtained from all participants. Oral informed consent from representatives of each village participated in the study, the Catholic Church Health Services of Wewak Diocese, the Division of Health of East Sepik Province were also given. The first author is wholly responsible for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
: No individual data or comments are contained in this paper.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.