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Received: 30 January 2018

Accepted: 12 July 2018

First Online: 27 July 2018

Authors’ information

: AP: is a third-year medical student at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School in Newark, NJ. She is also a two-term member of the American Medical Association Student Committee for Global Public Health. She has been selected to participate in the National Institutes of Health Medical Research Scholars Program, during which she plans to continue public health research. BKP: PhD, MPH, Associate Professor at Asian Institute of Public Health, Bhubaneswar, India.

: Ethical approval for the study was obtained from the Ethical Review Committee (ERC) of the Asian Institute of Public Health (AIPH-ERC Ref No. 09/2013). Informed written consent was obtained from all study participants, and that they were free to withdraw from the study at any point. The survey team also received the cultural competency and confidentiality training by a qualified trainer.

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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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