Ana, Yamuna
van den Brand, Floor A.
van Schayck, Onno C. P.
Babu, Giridhara R.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance (IA/CPHS/20/1/505278, IA/CPHS/20/1/505278)
Article History
Received: 5 October 2024
Accepted: 7 April 2025
First Online: 8 May 2025
Declarations
:
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: We obtained Institutional Ethics Committee of the Indian Institute of Public Health, Bengaluru campus (IEC) approval (IEC approval no: IIPHHB/TRCIEC/091/2015) for the study.
: We enrolled only those study participants who voluntarily agreed to participate and provided written informed consent. We obtained informed consent from participants after thoroughly explaining the procedures involved in the study.