Le Roux, Elisabet http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2164-1774
Corboz, Julienne
Scott, Nigel http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2463-8212
Sandilands, Maggie http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9780-2768
Lele, Uwezo Baghuma
Bezzolato, Elena
Jewkes, Rachel http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4330-6267
Funding for this research was provided by:
Department for International Development, UK Government
Article History
Received: 25 April 2019
Accepted: 21 September 2020
First Online: 7 October 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Ethics approval for this research was granted by the ethics committee of the Université Libre Pays des Grands Lacs in Goma, DRC. Permission was also granted by the Provincial Health Division of Ituri (Ministry of Public Health), as well as agreed in advance with community leaders in each of the targeted villages. All survey participants completed a consent form, by signing or making a mark, prior to the interview commencing. At both baseline and endline evaluation points, a key eligibility criteria was that respondents should be aged 18 years or older. We acknowledge that at baseline 18 respondents under the age of 18 years were sampled and at endline 20 respondents under the age of 18 were sampled. These cases were removed from the final datasets in order to comply with the ethics protocols of the study. Thus, no participants under the age of 18 are included in the final dataset.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.