Lutalo, Tom http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3380-1720
Gray, Ron
Santelli, John
Guwatudde, David
Brahmbhatt, Heena
Mathur, Sanyukta
Serwadda, David
Nalugoda, Fred
Makumbi, Fredrick
Article History
Received: 4 October 2017
Accepted: 15 April 2018
First Online: 27 April 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The RCCS and its procedures were approved by the Uganda Virus Research Institute’s Science and Ethics Committee (currently the Research Ethics Committee), the Uganda National Council for Science and Technology and Institutional Review Boards (IRB) at Johns Hopkins and Columbia Universities, and Western IRB in the USA. The Makerere University School of Public Health IRB approved this study. The legal age for consent in Uganda is 18 years. All adults aged 18 and above and emancipated minors provided a written consent to participate. Parents/guardians of un-emancipated minors provided written parental consent for minors while the minors assented to participate in the RCCS.
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