Nnko, Soori http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1835-6032
Nyato, Daniel
Kuringe, Evodius
Casalini, Caterina
Shao, Amani
Komba, Albert
Changalucha, John
Wambura, Mwita
Funding for this research was provided by:
U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (AID-621-A-15-00003)
Article History
Received: 24 July 2019
Accepted: 12 June 2020
First Online: 18 June 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The ethical clearance for the study was sought and obtained from NIMR (IRB No: <i>NIMR/HQ/R.8c/Vol.I/432</i>). The protocol for this study was also approved by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Institutional Review Board (IRB No: 00006985).Sex work is criminalized in Tanzania, therefore to ensure complete anonymity participants were asked to provide verbal consent, instead of written consent. To confirm that the participant has consented, only the interviewer signed the consent form. The consent form also included a statement seeking participants’ authorization to audio record the interviews / PGD conversations. No personal identifying information was collected from participants during interviews. To protect their identity, participants in the PGD were asked to use a pseudonym rather than their real name.
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: None of the authors has any competing interests to declare. The funding agency has no role in study design, data collection and analysis, preparation of the manuscript or decision to publish this paper.