Roberts, Stephen A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7477-7731
Brabin, Loretta http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4478-6503
Tinto, Halidou http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0472-3586
Gies, Sabine
Diallo, Salou http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1253-4726
Brabin, Bernard http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6860-2508
Article History
Received: 20 February 2021
Accepted: 16 September 2021
First Online: 27 September 2021
Declarations
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: The clinical protocol was approved by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, Research Ethics Committee (LSTM/REC), to the Institutional Review Board of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (IRB/ITM), to the Antwerp University Hospital Ethics Committee (EC/UZA), to the Institutional Ethics Committee of Centre Muraz (Comité d’Ethique Institutionnel du Centre Muraz, CEI/CM); and to the National Ethics Committee (Comité Ethique pour la Recherche en Santé, CERS) in Burkina Faso.All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. Prior to enrolment the study team visited each village to inform village elders and senior women about trial objectives and for permission to invite young women to take part. Informed consent with right to withdraw (signature or thumb print) was granted by each participant, or by her appointed guardian if a minor or married at recruitment. The consent procedure was repeated for participants continuing to be followed in the pregnant cohort.
: Not applicable.
: No, I declare that the authors have no competing interests as defined by BMC, or other interests that might be perceived to influence the results and/or discussion reported in this paper.