Pande, Gerald
Bulage, Lilian
Kabwama, Steven
Nsubuga, Fred
Kyambadde, Peter
Mugerwa, Shaban
Musinguzi, Joshua
Ario, Alex Riolexus
Article History
Received: 12 February 2019
Accepted: 1 October 2019
First Online: 5 November 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: We obtained ethical approval or consent from the Makerere University School of Public Health Higher Degrees Research and Ethics Committee (MakSPH-HDREC) and the Uganda National Council of Science and Technology (UNCST). We obtained administrative clearance from the district authorities where the study was conducted. We obtained writen (for FGDs and KIIs) informed consent from the study participants before enrollment into the study. We paid $4 to each of the FSWs as an incentive to participate in the study and also compensate for losses while interacting with the RAs. During the KIIs or FGDs, respondents were free to respond to questions they wanted to respond to and were not coerced to answer any questions. Anonymity was guaranteed by not writing participants’ names and confidentiality maintained by only researchers having access to information provided by the respondents and not disclosing to anyone outside the research team.
: The participants gave consent for direct quotes from their interviews to be published in the manuscript.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.