Acknowledgements
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INFECTIOUS DISEASES, MINOR, FRANCIS
We thank the adolescent girls and young women who participated in this study for their motivation and dedication, and the parents of minor participants for their support. We are grateful to the members of the trial’s Data and Safety Monitoring Board (H. Weiss (Chair), L. Denny, D. Mbori-Ngacha, S. Kapiga, F. Were and F. Sawe), community advisory boards at each trial location and overseeing ethics review committees for their expertise and guidance. We thank P. Dull and R. Gulati from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for their attentive oversight. We are grateful to the KEN SHE Study Team for their dedication and perseverance. The study is dedicated to K. Ramaswami (Malitha) Ramiah, S. Kanyi Mugo, R. Auma Onono, E. Muga, M. Nduta and all our mothers.The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (INV-010402) and the Francis and Dorothea Reed Endowed Chair in Infectious Diseases (R.V.B.) funded the KEN SHE Study. The content is solely the authors’ responsibility and does not necessarily represent the views, decisions or policies of the institutions with which they are affiliated or the KEN SHE Study funders. The funder of the study had no role in study design, data collection, data analysis, data interpretation or writing of the report.