Faturiyele, I. O.
Appolinare, T.
Ngorima-Mabhena, N.
Fatti, G.
Tshabalala, I.
Tukei, V. J.
Pisa, P. T.
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (0AA-A-15-00070)
Article History
Received: 13 March 2018
Accepted: 14 August 2018
First Online: 29 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was developed using the Standard Protocol Items: Recommendations for Interventional Trials (SPIRIT) Checklist (see Additional file InternalRef removed ) and adheres to the SPIRIT recommendations. The trial is registered with ClinicalTrials.gov as NCT03438370 and has received ethical clearance from the Lesotho National Health Research Ethics based at the Ministry of Health as well as Chesapeake Institutional Review Board in the USA [Number: ID49–2017 and MOD00231007 respectively]. Written informed consent will be obtained from all study participants prior to enrolment.
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