Sunuwar, Dev Ram
Singh, Devendra Raj
Pradhan, Pranil Man Singh
Shrestha, Vintuna
Rai, Pushpa
Shah, Sunil Kumar
Adhikari, Bipin
Article History
Received: 21 July 2021
Accepted: 13 February 2023
First Online: 15 February 2023
Declarations
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: The DHS program sought and obtained the required ethical approvals from each respective country: National Ethics Committee of the Bangladesh Medical Research Council, Cambodian National Ethical Committee for Health Research, Ethics Review Board of the International Institute for Population Sciences, Mumbai, India, Ethics Review Committee on Medical Research, Ministry of Health, Maldives, Ethics Review Committee on Medical Research, Ministry of Health and Sports, Myanmar, and Nepal Health Research Council (NHRC), Nepal. We registered and requested access to data from the DHS website (URL: ExternalRef removed). DHS programs collect data following written informed consent from each individual. All individual identifiers were precluded from the final dataset in this study. The surveys were conducted in accordance with relevant guidelines and regulations.
: Not applicable.
: The authors have declared that no competing interest exists.