Kumoji, E. ‘Kuor
Awantang, Grace N.
Toso, Michael
Kamara, Diarra
Bleu, Thérèse
Lahai, Wani
Sillah-Kanu, Musa
Dosso, Abdul
Achu, Dorothy
Babalola, Stella
Funding for this research was provided by:
global health bureau, united states agency for international development; u.s. president's malaria initiative (AID-OAA-A-17-00017)
Article History
Received: 4 August 2021
Accepted: 17 January 2022
First Online: 17 February 2022
Declarations
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: The research protocols were reviewed and approved prior to the start of the study in each country. Ethical approval was obtained from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Institutional Review Board (Cote d’Ivoire: IRB08821; Cameroon: IRB09646; Sierra Leone: FSR00033), and from the National Ethics and Research Committee in Côte d’Ivoire, the Sierra Leone Ethics and Scientific Review Committee in Sierra Leone, and the National Human Health Research Ethics Committee in Cameroon. Voluntary written informed consent was obtained from each adult respondent, and parental consent with informed assent from each respondent less than 18 years of age. Interviewers read a written informed consent script to each respondent to obtain informed consent prior to interviewing them. Respondents’ confidentiality was protected in part because no personal identifiers were collected in the data collection tool and access to completed questionnaires was limited to only the research staff.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.