Joseph, Jaison
Sankar, Hari
Benny, Gloria
Nambiar, Devaki
Funding for this research was provided by:
The Wellcome Trust DBT India Alliance (IA/CPHI/16/1/502653)
Article History
Received: 6 September 2022
Accepted: 7 April 2023
First Online: 24 April 2023
Declarations
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: of the study was received from the institutional ethics committee of George Institute for Global Health (Project Number 05/2019). All participants gave written informed consent before taking part in the study including Illiterate participants in the survey who were read out and explained the consent form in the local language. Thereafter, they were able to sign their names. The ethics committee that approved the study also approved this procedure of obtaining written informed consent from these participants. All methods were carried out in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare no competing interests.