Baron, Emily C.
Rathod, Sujit D.
Hanlon, Charlotte
Prince, Martin
Fedaku, Abebaw
Kigozi, Fred
Jordans, Mark
Luitel, Nagendra P.
Medhin, Girmay
Murhar, Vaibhav
Nakku, Juliet
Patel, Vikram
Petersen, Inge
Selohilwe, One
Shidhaye, Rahul
Ssebunnya, Joshua
Tomlinson, Mark
Lund, Crick
De Silva, Mary
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department for International Development (201446)
Article History
Received: 18 September 2017
Accepted: 26 February 2018
First Online: 6 March 2018
Change Date: 29 September 2020
Change Type: Correction
Change Details: An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the University of Cape Town’s Health Sciences Faculty Human Research Ethics committee (HREC REF: 412/2011), South Africa, and by the WHO Research Ethics Review Committee, Switzerland. Consent forms were translated in local languages and completed by all participants who agreed to participate, and/or by their caregivers, where appropriate. Each district also received Ethical approval from their relevant local Research Ethics Committees: Institutional Review Board of the College of Health Sciences of Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia; Sangath Institutional Review Board, India; Indian Council of Medical Research, India; Nepal Health Research Council; Biomedical Research Ethics Committee, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa; Research Ethics Committee of the School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makarere University, Uganda; National Council of Science and Technology, Uganda.Written consent to participate was obtained by all participants and/or their caregivers, where appropriate. All consent forms were translated in local languages.
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