Article History
Received: 22 March 2019
Accepted: 27 June 2019
First Online: 11 July 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The study was not funded, and the authors received no compensation for any related activity. The study was undertaken as part of the requirement of the first author’s MSc Public Health degree at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.The study protocol was approved by both international and national ethical review boards that included the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s Ethical Review Board (LSHTM MSc Ethics Ref: 7462) and the National Bioethics Committee, Pakistan Medical Research Council. There were no risks or benefits to the participants. We took special care to maintain anonymity and confidentiality. Transcripts were anonymized by assigning an alias, while we do not refer to individual respondents or their organizations in presenting our findings.
: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.