Rego, Ryan http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1361-9366
Watson, Samuel
Ishengoma, Philbert
Langat, Philemon
Otieno, Hezekiah Pireh
Lilford, Richard
Funding for this research was provided by:
University of Warwick
National Institute for Health Research
Article History
Received: 9 March 2020
Accepted: 23 June 2020
First Online: 30 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study was approved by the University of Warwick Biomedical and Scientific Research Ethics Committee (BSREC) (REGO-2018-2148), and cleared by local environmental health officers at the Mwanza Urban Water Supply and Sanitation Authority and the Lake Victoria Basin Office. We additionally followed international standards for health research as per University of Warwick and United Nations: participants were asked to give written informed consent; all documents were in the Tanzanian dialect of KiSwahili, and all documents were explained and read to the participant by a local research assistant if necessary. Data were stored on an encrypted server. All participants were free not to take part; and in the event that a parent reported blood in the stool, were told to visit the public hospital. Further, all participants were given a local phone number to call with concerns. The protocol was prospectively registered on ISRCTN on the 20th of March 2019 under number ExternalRef removed.
: No individual level data has been presented.
: None to declare.