Anieto, Ebuka Miracle
Anieto, Ijeoma Blessing
Ituen, Oluwakemi Adebukola
Naidoo, Niri
Ezema, Charles I.
Smits-Engelsman, Bouwien
Funding for this research was provided by:
Mandela Rhodes Foundation
Article History
Received: 26 May 2023
Accepted: 4 October 2023
First Online: 23 October 2023
Declarations
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: The ethics guidelines contained in the Declaration of Helsinki (World Medical Association, 2013) were strictly adhered to while conducting this study. Ethical approvals were sought and obtained from the Faculty of Health Sciences Human Research Ethics Committees (HREC), University of Cape Town, South Africa (HREC Ref: 490/2021), and the Ethical Committee University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, Enugu (NHREC/05/01/2008B-FWA00002458-1RB00002323). Permission was also sought and obtained from the Anambra State Universal Basic Education Board and the head of the target primary schools. Written informed consent was gotten from the parents of the children, and each included child provided assent. This manuscript did not publish personal data of the participants.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no financial or non-financial conflict of interests.