De Man, Jeroen
Kasujja, Francis Xavier
Delobelle, Peter
Annerstedt, Kristi Sidney
Alvesson, Helle Mölsted
Absetz, Pilvikki
Wouters, Edwin
Daivadanam, Meena
Guwatudde, David
Puoane, Thandi
Remmen, Roy
Tabana, Hanani
Van Olmen, Josefien
Article History
Received: 11 June 2021
Accepted: 4 January 2022
First Online: 24 January 2022
Declarations
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: “All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.” Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.The study was approved by the ethics committees in each of the respective countries. In Uganda, this was the Higher Degrees, Research and Ethics Committee (HDREC) of Makerere University School of Public Health and the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (Ref. HDREC-331 and HS 1917 respectively). In South Africa this was the University of the Western Cape Biomedical Science Research Ethics Committee (BM17/1/36) and the Western Cape Government Department of Health. In Sweden, this was the Regional Ethics Review Board in Stockholm (Ref. 2015/712–31/1).
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.