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Authors
Rijal, Nished
Rai, Sita Sherpa
Shrestha, Heena
Foster, Angel M.
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Funding
Funding for this research was provided by:
Anonymous foundation
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Article History
Received: 22 December 2024
Accepted: 14 October 2025
First Online: 8 December 2025
Declarations
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: We received ethics approval for this study from the Research Ethics Board at the University of Ottawa (S-04-19-3909) and the Nepal Health Research Council (417/2023). All participants provided consent to participate and for the research team to audio-record their interviews. We confirm that we conducted this study in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki.
: Study participants provided consent for personal quotes to be used in all reports and publications. We removed or redacted all personal identifying information and we used pseudonyms throughout the paper.
: The authors declare no competing interests.
