Obuku, E. A. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2728-4942
Sewankambo, N. K.
Mafigiri, D. K.
Sengooba, F.
Karamagi, C.
Lavis, J. N.
Funding for this research was provided by:
International Development Research Centre (104519-008)
Article History
Received: 23 January 2018
Accepted: 22 June 2018
First Online: 3 August 2018
Authors’ information
: EAO is a doctoral fellow supervised by NKS, a Professor of Medicine and Principal College of Health Sciences at Makerere University, Kampala Uganda. JNL is a Professor of Health Policy and Director McMaster Health Forum, at McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. CK is a Professor of Pediatrics and Child Health as well as Director, Clinical Epidemiology Unit; DKM is a Professor of Social Sciences, whilst FK is a Professor and Director Department of Health Policy and Planning, all at Makerere University, Uganda.
: The School of Medicine Research & Ethics Committee, the Uganda National Council for Science & Technology (HS 3268) and Office of the President of Uganda (ADM/154/212/01) approved this study. We obtained permission to access the data from the Directorate of Research and Graduate Training, Makerere University. Since we used data that was available in the public domain, we characterised this study as having less than ‘minimal risk’.
: Not applicable. All the data on publications of articles was available in the public domain.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests. The funding body did not play any role in the design of the study and collection, analysis and interpretation of data, and in writing the manuscript.
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