Boua, Palwende Romuald http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8325-2665
Soo, Cassandra Claire
Debpuur, Cornelius
Maposa, Innocent
Nkoana, Shai
Mohamed, Shukri F.
Choma, Solomon
Oduro, Abraham
Asiki, Gershim
Micklesfield, Lisa K.
Gómez-Olivé, Francesc Xavier
Sorgho, Hermann
Mall, Sumaya
Ramsay, Michèle
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Funding for this research was provided by:
National Human Genome Research Institute (U54HG006938)
Department of Science and Technology, Republic of South Africa (DST/CON 0056/2014)
South African Medical Research Council (119375)
Article History
Received: 30 July 2020
Accepted: 18 May 2021
First Online: 12 June 2021
Declarations
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: Ethics approval was obtained from the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) for AWI-Gen which included approval for the Wits sites at DPHRU (Soweto) and Agincourt (M121029, Renewal M170880)/South Africa. Each of the research centres outside of Wits applied for ethics approval in accordance with their national regulations. Dikgale (DIMAMO) (University of Limpopo, Medunsa Research and Ethics Committee (MREC) MREC/HS/195/2014:CR)/ South Africa, APHRC (The Ethics and Scientific Review Committee AMREF P114/2014)/Kenya, Nanoro (The Institutional Ethics Committee of Centre Muraz 015–2014/CE-CM)/Burkina Faso, and Navrongo (Ghana Health Service Ethical Review Committee GHS-ERC 05/05/14)/Ghana. All participants were required to sign an informed consent document stating their willingness to share and have stored both their anonymised collected data and biospecimens. A withdrawal clause was included which makes provision for participants to withdraw from the study. It also specifies that any anonymised data already within the public sphere cannot be withdrawn.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.