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Received: 15 December 2017

Accepted: 13 March 2018

First Online: 29 March 2018

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The Nepal Health Research Council (#461/2016) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital Institutional Review Board (2017P000709/PHS) approved the study protocol. We will obtain verbal informed consent from all study participants.

: We will obtain verbal informed consent from all study participants from which qualitative data will be used in publications.

: SM, WJW, RS, and DM work in partnership with and AT, PT, LK, SH and DC are employed by a nonprofit healthcare company (Possible) that delivers free healthcare in rural Nepal using funds from the Government of Nepal and other public, philanthropic, and private foundation sources. At the time of intervention implementation, IN and IB were employed by Possible. SM is employed at an academic medical center (Boston Medical Center) that receives public sector research funding, as well as revenue through private sector fee-for-service medical transactions and private foundation grants. SM is a faculty member at a private university (Boston University School of Medicine). WJW is an academic fellow at and RS and DM are employed at an academic medical center (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) that receives public sector research funding, as well as revenue through private sector fee-for-service medical transactions and private foundation grants. IN is a student at a private university (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health). SH and DC are employed part time at and DC is a faculty member at a public university (University of Washington). RS is employed at an academic medical center (Massachusetts General Hospital) that receives public sector research funding, as well as revenue through private sector fee-for-service medical transactions and private foundation grants. RS and DM are faculty members at a private university (Harvard Medical School). IB, NKC, and PC are employed by the Government of Nepal. KK is a faculty member at a public university (Tribhuvan University, Institute of Medicine). DM is a non-voting member on <i>Possible</i>’s board of directors but receives no compensation. All authors have read and understood BioMed Central’s policy on competing interests and declare that we have no competing financial interests. The authors do, however, believe strongly that healthcare is a public good, not a private commodity.

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