Fragmented understanding: exploring the practice and meaning of informed consent in clinical trials in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

"Declarations Ethics approval and consent to participateThe study was approved by the ethics committee of the Hospital of Tropical Diseases in Ho Chi Minh City (IORG007145) and the ethics committee of the Oxford Tropical Research, University of Oxford (OxTREC Reference: 549-18). All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations. Informed consent was obtained from all research participants. No participants involved in this study was under 16 years old. Consent for publicationNot applicable. All data used in the manuscript are anonymised. Competing interestsThe authors declare that they have no competing interests. Competing interests The authors declare that they have no competing interests."

"Funding This research was funded in whole by Wellcome [096527]. For the purpose of open access, the author has applied a CC BY public copyright licence to any Author Accepted Manuscript version arising from this submission.The funding body did not involve in the design of the study and collection, analysis, and interpretation of data and in writing the manuscript."