Ingabire, Prossie Merab
Ojji, Dike B.
Rayner, Brian
Ogola, Elijah
Damasceno, Albertino
Jones, Erika
Dzudie, Anastase
Ogah, Okechukwu S.
Poulter, Neil
Sani, Mahmoud U.
Barasa, Felix Ayub
Shedul, Grace
Mukisa, John
Mukunya, David
Wandera, Bonnie
Batte, Charles
Kayima, James
Pandie, Shahiemah
Mondo, Charles Kiiza
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Article History
Received: 11 March 2021
Accepted: 19 May 2021
First Online: 22 May 2021
Declarations
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: The primary study protocol was approved by St. Francis Hospital Nsambya Research Ethics Committee (UG-REC-020) and the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology. It was also approved by the institutional review board and ethics committee at each participating centre. The study protocol conforms to the ethical guidelines of the 1975 Declaration of Helsinki as reflected in a priori approval by the institution’s human research committee. The subjects were informed about the purpose and procedure of the study; they expressed their written informed consent for the participation, and were allowed to withdraw from the participation at any stage of the study. The participant numbers were used as identifiers instead of their names for confidentiality purpose. No separate IRB approval was sought for this secondary study as no new data collection was conducted and all the analysis conducted fall within the confines of the initial approval.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.