Dandona, Rakhi
Kumar, G. Anil
Akbar, Md.
Bhattacharya, Debarshi
Nanda, Priya
Dandona, Lalit
Funding for this research was provided by:
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Article History
Received: 5 October 2018
Accepted: 21 January 2019
First Online: 7 February 2019
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was approved by the Institutional Ethics Committee of the Public Health Foundation of India. All participants provided written informed consent, and for those who could not read or write, the participant information sheet and consent form were explained by the trained interviewer and a thumb impression obtained.
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: PN and DB are employees of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, India Country Office, New Delhi. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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