Umutesi, Justine
Nsanzimana, Sabin
Yingkai Liu, Carol
Vanella, Patrizio
Ott, Jördis J.
Krause, Gérard
Funding for this research was provided by:
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung GmbH (HZI)
Article History
Received: 2 February 2022
Accepted: 17 May 2022
First Online: 27 May 2022
Declarations
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: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, with the utmost respect for the study participants. Prior to data collection during the screening campaign, oral consent was sought from participants and the Rwandan National Ethics Committee approved the waiver for written informed consent. In addition, we obtained the data anonymously to ensure that no participant would be harmed by not being contacted directly, all information about individual persons was removed, with a high degree of assurance that individual information would not be linked. Before the analysis, the following institutions have approved the study: (1) Rwanda National Council for Science and Technology (No 139/NCST.2019), Rwanda, (2) Rwanda National Ethics Committee (No. 958/RNEC/2019), Rwanda (3) Ethical commission at Hannover Medical School (Nr.8604_BO_K_2019), Germany.
: Not applicable.
: There is no competing interests to declare.