Surkan, Pamela J. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0334-5931
Strobino, Donna M.
Mehra, Sucheta
Shamim, Abu Ahmed
Rashid, Mahbubur
Wu, Lee Shu-Fune
Ali, Hasmot
Ullah, Barkat
Labrique, Alain B.
Klemm, Rolf D. W.
West, Keith P. Jr
Christian, Parul
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (1 RO3 HD069731-01A1)
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPPGH614, Global Control of Micronutrient Deficiency)
United States Agency for International Development (USAID, Micronutrients for Health Cooperative Agreement HRN-A-00-97-00015-00 and Global Research Activity GHS-A-00-03-00019-00)
USAID Mission, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh, Dhaka
Sight and Life Research Institute, Baltimore, Maryland
Article History
Received: 10 June 2016
Accepted: 19 November 2018
First Online: 13 December 2018
Ethics approval
: All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. The study protocol was reviewed and approved by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Institutional Review Board (IRB, #H.22.01.01.11.A1) and the Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC, BMRC/ERC/1998–2001/2405).
: The informed consent process included, when so desired by the subjects, husbands, in-laws and sometimes community members. Individual consent was sought from the participating women and documented. Married women under 18 years of age who are living as a consensual couple starting to raise a family are formally considered to be emancipated minors. Their consent is considered acceptable without requiring parental consent, a facet of the protocol that was reviewed and approved by the IRB at Johns Hopkins University and the Bangladesh Medical Research Council.
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