Ramonaheng, Keamogetswe https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5837-9303
van Staden, Johannes A. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7438-9782
du Raan, Hanlie https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0073-7355
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Research Foundation of South Africa (STINT 160811184621)
Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT 160811184621)
NTeMBI
Article History
Received: 2 October 2020
Accepted: 8 February 2021
First Online: 18 March 2021
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was performed with approval from the Health Sciences Research Ethics Committee at the University of the Free State, Ethics number UFS-HSD2019/1506/0110. The HSREC functions in compliance with, but not limited to, the following documents and guidelines: The SA National Health Act. No. 61 of 2003; Ethics in Health Research: Principles, Structures and Processes (2015); SA GCP(2006); Declaration of Helsinki; The Belmont Report; The US Office of Human Research Protections 45 CFR 461 (for non-exempt research with human participants conducted or supported by the US Department of Health and Human Services- (HHS), 21 CFR 50, 21 CFR 56; CIOMS; ICH-GCP-E6 Sections 1–4; The International Conference on Harmonization and Technical Requirements for Registration of Pharmaceuticals for Human Use (ICH Tripartite), Guidelines of the SA Medicines Control Council as well as Laws and Regulations with regard to the Control of Medicines, Constitution of the HSREC of the Faculty of Health Sciences at UFS.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.