Altare, Chiara http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3410-0427
Malembaka, Espoir Bwenge
Tosha, Maphie
Hook, Christopher
Ba, Hamady
Bikoro, Stéphane Muzindusi
Scognamiglio, Thea
Tappis, Hannah
Pfaffmann, Jerome
Balaluka, Ghislain Bisimwa
Boerma, Ties
Spiegel, Paul
Funding for this research was provided by:
Hospital for Sick Children (129570)
Article History
Received: 13 December 2019
Accepted: 2 March 2020
First Online: 27 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health determined that this study was not human subjects research and therefore did not require institutional review board oversight (IRB 8652). In DRC, the study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Université Catholique de Bukavu’s Institution Review Board (UCB/CIES/NC/02/2018). Oral consent was obtained from all study participants before initiating data collection.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.