Hossain, Md. Sakhawat
Kumar, Amresh
Hossain, A.F.M Akhtar
Mahshin, Md.
Sharma, Abhijit
Hossain, Md. Akter
Sharma, Varun
Haque, Rashidul
Shamsuzzaman, A.K.M
Maruf, Shomik
Ghosh, Prakash
Ahuja, Vivek
Mondal, Dinesh
Funding for this research was provided by:
PATH USA
Article History
Received: 9 November 2017
Accepted: 11 July 2018
First Online: 13 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This activity was approved by the CDC, DGHS, GoB DGDA, GoB, and the research administration of icddr,b (No. ACT-00719). Under this activity, all patient-related data were retrieved upon the consent of the CDC, GoB. As the CDC, GoB has the authority to provide patient-related data to any research body for passive data analysis, individual patient consent was not required to avail treatment-related data. Furthermore, according to the NKEP, verbal autopsy is mandatory for VL treatment-related death cases. Therefore, the NKEP maintains ethical procedures to collect data through verbal autopsy. As the treatment centers included in this activity fall under the CDC, DGHS, GoB, the consent from the CDC was enough to include all treatment centers. All participating institutes signed a joint memorandum of understanding before initiating the activity.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.