Lungu, Edgar Arnold
Darker, Catherine
Biesma, Regien
Funding for this research was provided by:
Irish Aid (Connecting Health Research in Africa and Ireland)
Wellcome Trust (Health Research Capacity Strengthening Initiative)
Article History
Received: 22 February 2019
Accepted: 7 January 2020
First Online: 17 January 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethical approval was granted by the National Health Sciences Research Ethics Committee in Malawi and the Research and Ethics Committee of Trinity College Dublin, Ireland under approval numbers NHSRC 895 and 27201107 respectively. Verbal and written consent was sought for participation in this study. After explaining the study, participants who were able to write provided written consent by signing a consent form while those unable to write provided verbal consent and where possible provided a thumb print using ink on the consent form. Community/ward leaders were consulted and provided permission for community entry prior to data collection. Access to data was restricted to members of the research team.
: Not Applicable.
: We declare that none of the authors has any competing interests.