Cernigliaro, Dana
Barrington, Clare
Perez, Martha
Donastorg, Yeycy
Kerrigan, Deanna http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7401-9159
Funding for this research was provided by:
United States Agency for International Development (GHH-I-02-07-00032-00)
Article History
Received: 1 September 2017
Accepted: 22 June 2018
First Online: 3 July 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Institutional Review Boards of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the University of North Carolina and the Instituto Dermatologico y Cirugia de la Piel Dr. Humberto Bogart Diaz in the Dominican Republic approved the study. Participants provided oral consent rather than written consent to protect confidentiality of a highly stigmatized population group. The verbal consent method was specifically reviewed and approved by all IRBs to protect the confidentiality of study participants.
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