Lakoh, Sulaiman
Vamboi, Patricia Lombeh
Ouédraogo, Abdoul Risgou
Adekanmbi, Olukemi
Deen, Gibrilla F.
Russell, James B. W.
Sankoh-Hughes, Ahmed
Kamara, Joseph B.
Kanu, Joseph Edwin
Yendewa, George A.
Firima, Emmanuel
Amaral, André F. S.
Article History
Received: 14 December 2022
Accepted: 25 August 2023
First Online: 16 November 2023
Declarations
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: The protocol was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences in accordance with the relevant guidelines and regulations and declaration of Helsinki. Written informed consent was obtained from each participant before participating in the study. If participants were illiterate, the study, and consent forms were explained verbally to them, and informed consent was given by legal guardian fingerprinting as approved by the Institutional Review Board of the College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of Sierra Leone. Participants who refused to consent were excluded from the study, but this did not affect their management.
: Not applicable.
: EF receives his salary from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement (No 801076), through SSPH + Global PhD Fellowship Programme in Public Health Sciences (GlobalP3HS). GAY reports salary support from the National Institutes of Health/AIDS Clinical Trials Group under Award Numbers 5UM1AI068636-15, 5UM1AI069501-09 and AI068636(150GYD212), and consultancy fees from Pfizer. All other authors do not have any conflict of interest.