Compaoré, Adélaïde
Gies, Sabine
Brabin, Bernard
Tinto, Halidou
Brabin, Loretta http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4478-6503
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (Grant Number U01HD061234-01A1; Supplementary -05S1 and -02S2)
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (Grant Number U01HD061234-01A1; Supplementary -05S1 and -02S2)
National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements (U01HD061234-01A1; Supplementary -05S1 and -02S2)
Article History
Received: 26 November 2017
Accepted: 7 March 2018
First Online: 14 March 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The protocol was approved by the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK, Research Ethics Committee (LSTM/REC Research Protocol 10.55), the Institutional Review Board of the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium (Reference IRB/AB/AC/016), the Antwerp University Hospital Ethics Committee (EC/UZA), the Institutional Ethics Committee of Centre Muraz (Comité d’Ethique Institutionnel du Centre Muraz, Reference 015–2010/CE-CM); the National Ethics Committee (Comité Ethique pour la Recherche en Santé, CERS) in Burkina Faso and the University of Manchester Ethics Committee. The study was performed in full compliance with the Declaration of Helsinki on human studies. The protocol summary (10PRT/6932) is available at ExternalRef removedAll subjects gave written informed consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. Individual and guardian written consents for minors were obtained from all non-pregnant women at recruitment with re-consent taken at entry to the pregnancy cohort.
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