Katz, Ariana W. K. http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5742-4953
Mensch, Barbara S.
Woeber, Kubashni
Musara, Petina
Etima, Juliane
van der Straten, Ariane
Funding for this research was provided by:
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (UM1AI068633 and UM1AI068615)
National Institute of Mental Health (UM1AI068633 and UM1AI068615)
Article History
Received: 19 April 2018
Accepted: 11 January 2019
First Online: 25 January 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: 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 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments, or comparable ethical standards. The study protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Boards at RTI International and at each of the study sites (South African Medical Research Council (MRC) – Isipingo and Overport; Makerere University - Johns Hopkins University (MU-JHU) Research Collaboration; and University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences Clinical Trials Unit (UZCHS CTU) – Seke South and Zengeza) and was overseen by the regulatory infrastructure of the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the Microbicide Trials Network (MTN). Written informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study.
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