Funding for this research was provided by:
European Commissions’ Seventh Framework Programme (FP7-CP-SICA grant number 261349)
South African Research Foundation (Grant UID: 95048)
Article History
Received: 20 March 2017
Accepted: 10 July 2018
First Online: 3 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The UNITAS study was granted ethics clearance by the University Research Ethics Committees of the three partner institutions [HREC REF: 255/2013, Clearance certificate No: M140528, REF: BE197/13], who were responsible for data collection in each district of study. A separate ethics clearance was also secured for the doctoral research being presented (Clearance certificate No. M140623). Additional study approval was secured from the three provincial and district departments of health in which the study was carried out. Participants provided written informed consent for participation in the study.
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