Molla, Meseret
Negussie, Henok
Ngari, Moses
Kivaya, Esther
Njuguna, Patricia
Enqueselassie, Fikre
Berkley, James A.
Davey, Gail http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2796-7468
Funding for this research was provided by:
Medical Research Council (MR/K007211/1)
Article History
Received: 24 October 2017
Accepted: 27 February 2018
First Online: 7 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The trial was approved by the IRB of the College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University (meeting number 056/2014; protocol number 071/13/SPH; approval date: 12/01/2014), the National Ethical Review Committee of the Ethiopian Science and Technology Agency (approval number 3–1/794/06; approval date: 02/06/2014), the Food, Medicine and Health Care Administration Authority (reference number 02/6–1/05/39; approval date: 09/04/2014) and the Research Ethics and Governance Committee of Brighton & Sussex Medical School (approval number 13/107/DAV; approval date: 12/08/2014). Initial oral consent was sought for screening of those who fulfilled inclusion and exclusion criteria at this visit. Patients who then attended an enrolment appointment at a nearby health post were given further information about the trial (taking into account the community’s expressed preferences for content and delivery of information elicited during Rapid Ethical Assessment). Individual informed consent was provided, either signed by the participant or thumbprinted and then signed by an independent witness, as agreed by the Institutional Review Boards.
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