Islam, Rubana http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9538-5390
Hossain, Shahed
Bashar, Farzana
Khan, Shaan Muberra
Sikder, Adel A. S.
Yusuf, Sifat Shahana
Adams, Alayne M.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research (GR-01333)
Article History
Received: 8 November 2017
Accepted: 19 June 2018
First Online: 5 October 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The study protocol numbered PR-15088, was reviewed and received approval from the Institutional Review Board of icddr,b and the World Health Organization Ethics Review Committee. Informed consent was sought in writing from all participants. To ensure anonymity and confidentiality, all transcripts were de-identified and each respondent was specified a unique identifier code generated with a combination of numbers and letters. An arrangement for the place of interview or discussion was ensured as per participant’s choice to foster an environment where they could talk freely with privacy.
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