Ngwira, Lucky Gift http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2695-8917
Maheswaran, Hendramoorthy
Petrou, Stavros
Niessen, Louis W.
Smith, Sarah C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
MRC Norway (NCT02426112)
EuroQol Research Foundation (20190200)
National Institute of Health and Research (NIHR 16/36/35.)
Article History
Received: 26 December 2023
Accepted: 8 July 2024
First Online: 10 September 2024
Declarations
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: This study was approved by the Malawi College of Medicine (now Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHES)) Research Ethics Committee and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine Research Ethics Committee. All participants gave assent to participate, and consent was also obtained from their parents/guardians.
: Informed consent was provided by parents/carers of all participants in this study, and assent was given by the participants themselves. All authors have provided their consent for the publication of this manuscript.
: Authors declares no conflict of interest. However, SP received grants as a NIHR Senior Investigator (NF-Sl-0616-10103), and from the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Oxford and Thames Valley during the conduct of the study.