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Authors
Sifumba, Zolelwa
Claassen, Helgard
Olivier, Stephen
Khan, Palwasha
Ngubane, Hloniphile
Bhengu, Thokozani
Zulu, Thando
Sithole, Mareca
Gareta, Dickman
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Moosa, Mahomed-Yunus S.
Hanekom, Willem A.
Bassett, Ingrid V.
Wong, Emily B.
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (D43TW001265, K24 AI141036)
Fogarty International Center (D43TW010543)
Burroughs Wellcome Fund (1022002)
Wellcome (201433/Z/16/A)
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Article History
Received: 8 December 2023
Accepted: 18 April 2024
First Online: 2 June 2024
Declarations
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: Vukuzazi participants provided written informed consent for all community-based screening procedures, for sharing of sputum and chest x-ray results with the DoH, for linkage to medical databases, including Tier.net, and for researchers to contact them for follow-up studies based on their health characteristics. Participants in the follow-up telephonic survey provided verbal informed consent to participate. Ethical approval for the parent and follow-up telephonic survey were obtained from the Ethics Committees of the University of KwaZulu-Natal (BE560/17), London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (#14722), the Partners Institutional Review Board (2018P001802) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (#300007237). All study activities were conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
