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Article History

Received: 3 February 2018

Accepted: 27 August 2018

First Online: 6 December 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethical clearance was obtained from Tropical Disease Research Center (TDRC) in Zambia. Permission and authority to conduct the study was obtained from management at the teaching hospital. Participants consented to participate in the study by providing their thump print on the consent form. Prior to data collection, they were briefed on the nature and objectives of the study. In order to assure anonymity and confidentiality, the names of the participants were not recorded in the questionnaires, codes were instead used as a form of identification. The filled questionnaires were kept in locked cupboards while the soft data files were password protected.

: Not applicable.

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