Tarimo, Clifford Silver
Bhuyan, Soumitra S.
Zhao, Yizhen
Ren, Weicun
Mohammed, Akram
Li, Quanman
Gardner, Marilyn
Mahande, Michael Johnson
Wang, Yuhui
Wu, Jian
Article History
Received: 18 May 2021
Accepted: 28 February 2022
First Online: 1 April 2022
Declarations
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: This study sought and was granted an ethical approval from Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College Research and Ethics Committee with reference number 985. The registry project obtained informed verbal consents from the study subjects during development of the medical registry database and was approved by the Ministry of Health of Tanzania and the National Ethics Committee in Norway prior to its commencement. The midwife nurse gave every woman oral information about the birth registry, the data needed to be collected from them and the use of the data for research purposes. Following the consent, the woman could still opt not to reply to individual questions. All informed consent procedures were approved by the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre ethical committee and the administrative permission to access the data was provided by the KCMC hospital. Furthermore, confidentiality and privacy were assured as per the protocol of the birth registry. Patients’ names were coded by the unique hospital registration numbers to ensure anonymity. We declare that all methods adopted in this research were carried out in accordance with the guideline and regulations for involving human participants.
: Not Applicable.
: The authors declare to have no competing interests.