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Article History

Received: 21 August 2019

Accepted: 8 April 2020

First Online: 13 May 2020

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: This study received ethics clearance for research on human participants from the University of Guelph research ethics board (certificate 12MY023). Permission for the study was granted by the High Commission of India in Ottawa, Canada. Upon arrival to the research site, and prior to the recruitment process, we approached local authorities (<i>panchayat</i> councils, local police officials, and hospital medical staff) and sought and obtained written permission to carry out the study. Informed verbal consent was obtained from all research participants prior to enrollment and throughout the study. Verbal consent was sought in lieu of written consent due to the low literacy rate of research participants, and this consent process was approved by the University of Guelph research ethics board.

: No individual data are presented in the manuscript.

: The authors declare no competing interests.