Lantagne, Daniele
Lehmann, Lilian
Yates, Travis
Gallandat, Karin
Sikder, Mustafa
Domini, Marta
String, Gabrielle
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fogarty International Center (Part of Invited Series)
Article History
Received: 9 May 2020
Accepted: 9 March 2021
First Online: 22 March 2021
Declarations
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: As described herein, ethics approval was obtained for each study herein following institutional and local ethics requirements at the time the study was conducted. For each study, this included:HWT: This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Please note at the time the study was approved and conducted (2008–2010) local approval was not required by the Ethics Committee of LSHTM.Dispensers: This study was approved by the Social, Behavioral, and Educational Research Institutional Review Board (SBER-IRB) of Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA). Please note at the time the study was approved and conducted (2010–2012) local approval was not required by the IPA IRB.Water Safety Plans: This study was approved by the SBER-IRB of Tufts University, along with: 1) the Institutional Ethics Committee of the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute in India; 2) the School of Public Health’s Ethical Review Board at the Catholic University of Bukavu in DRC; and, 3) in the absence of national processes, the UNICEF South Pacific Regional Research, Evaluation, Studies, and Ethics Committee for Fiji and Vanuatu.Household Spraying: This study was approved by the SBER-IRB of Tufts University, along with: 1) the National Bioethics Committee in Haiti; and, 2) in the absence of an SBER process at the time the study was conducted in DRC, ethical and cultural appropriateness were confirmed by a certified, independent, local medical researcher.Water Trucking: This study was approved by the SBER-IRB of Tufts University, along with: 1) in Cox’s Bazar, in the absence of an ethics process that protected the refugee population, camp Mahjis (informal Rohingya leaders) met to discuss and amend the protocol with an independent third party; and, 2) in DRC, in the absence of an SBER process at the time the study was conducted, ethical and cultural appropriateness were confirmed by a certified, independent, local medical researcher.Bucket Chlorination: This study was approved by the SBER-IRB of Tufts University, along with: 1) in Cox’s Bazar, in the absence of an ethics process that protected the refugee population, camp Mahjis (informal Rohingya leaders) met to discuss and amend the protocol with an independent third party 2) in DRC, in the absence of an SBER process at the time the study was conducted, ethical and cultural appropriateness were confirmed by a certified, independent, local medical researcher; 3) the National Bioethics Committee approved the study in Haiti; 4) a Program Director from the Surveillance Department at the Mozambique National Institute of Health independently confirmed the appropriateness of protocols.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.