Mesic, Anita http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7541-6380
Spina, Alexander
Mar, Htay Thet
Thit, Phone
Decroo, Tom
Lenglet, Annick
Thandar, Moe Pyae
Thwe, Thin Thin
Kyaw, Aung Aung
Homan, Tobias
Sangma, Mitchell
Kremer, Ronald
Grieg, Jane
Piriou, Erwan
Ritmeijer, Koert
Van Olmen, Josefien
Lynen, Lutgarde
Oo, Htun Nyunt
Article History
Received: 9 November 2020
Accepted: 8 April 2021
First Online: 21 April 2021
Declarations
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: The study was approved by the Institutional Review Board, Department of Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar (Ethics/DMR/2019/153) and fulfilled the exemption criteria set by the MSF independent Ethical Review Board [CitationRef removed] for a posteriori analyses of routinely collected clinical data and thus did not require MSF ERB review. It was conducted with a permission from the MSF Medical Director, Operational Center Amsterdam. Exemption from review by the MSF ERB for retrospective analyses of routinely collected data requires consent to have been given by patients in MSF programmes at the time of treatment for secondary use of their data. Therefore, consents of individuals for secondary analysis of the dataset was not sought.
: Authors have no competing interest to declare.