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Funding for this research was provided by:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (OPP1116433)
Article History
Received: 11 May 2020
Accepted: 12 August 2020
First Online: 1 September 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol was reviewed and approved by The INCLEN Independent Ethics Committee, The INCLEN Trust International, New Delhi, India (Ref: IIEC 23) and all participating Study Site Institute Ethics Committees. The list of ethics committees of the study site institutes included: Institutional Ethics Committee, King George’s Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India; Institutional Ethics Committee, MP Shah Government Medical College, Jamnagar, Gujarat, India; Institutional Ethics Committee, Sher-I-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, Jammu & Kashmir, India; Institutional Ethics Committee, Gauhati Medical College, Guwahati, Assam, India; Institutional Human Ethics Committee, PSG Institute of Medical Sciences, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India; Institutional Ethics Committee, King George Hospital, Andhra Medical College, Vishakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India; Institutional Ethics Committee, Fortis Escorts Hospital, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India; Institutional Ethics Committee, Grant Medical College & JJ Hospital, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India; Institutional Ethics Committee, Government Medical College & SAT Hospital, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India; Medanta Institutional Ethics Committee, Medanta—The Medicity, Gurgaon, Haryana, India; Institutional Ethics Committee, SCB Medical College, Cuttack, Odisha, India; Institutional Ethics Committee, IMS & SUM Medical College & Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India; Institutional Ethics Committee; Choithram Hospital and Research Centre, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India; Institutional Ethics Committee, Agartala Government Medical College, Agartala, Tripura, India; Institutional Ethics Committee- Clinical Studies, Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, Tamil Nadu; Institutional Ethics Committee, Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi, India; Institutional Ethics Committee, Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, West Bengal, India; Institutional Ethics Committee, Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Patna, Bihar, India; and Ethics Committee, Apollo Hospital, Hyderabad, Telengana, India. The interviews with stakeholders were done after obtaining written informed consent.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that there is no competing interests and conflict of interest.