Akiba, Christopher F. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9434-815X
Zimba, Chifundo C.
Thom, Annie
Matewere, Maureen
Go, Vivian
Pence, Brian
Gaynes, Bradley N.
Masiye, Jones
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) (U19MH113202-01)
Article History
Received: 23 August 2019
Accepted: 11 May 2020
First Online: 19 May 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional committees on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2008. The authors assert that all procedures contributing to this work comply with the ethical standards of the relevant national and institutional guides on the care and use of laboratory animals.Written informed consent was obtained from all study participants. In instances where participants were illiterate, their thumb prints were obtained along with the signature of a witness attesting that appropriate consent procedures had taken place.This study has been approved by the University of North Carolina Biomedical Institutional Review Board Reference ID 250449 and the Malawian National Health Sciences Research Committee – Approval #1925.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.