de Jonge, Erik http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1690-1802
Azad, Kishwar
Hossen, Munir
Kuddus, Abdul
Manandhar, Dharma S.
van de Poel, Ellen
Roy, Swati Sarbani
Saville, Naomi
Sen, Aman
Sikorski, Catherine
Tripathy, Prasanta
Costello, Anthony
Houweling, Tanja A. J.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Economic and Social Research Council (ES/I033572/1)
Wellcome Trust (085417MA/Z/08/Z)
Rotterdam Global Health Initiative
Erasmus University Rotterdam Research Excellence Initiative
Article History
Received: 30 January 2018
Accepted: 1 August 2018
First Online: 15 August 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: All trials that provided underlying data for this study were approved by the ethics committee of the Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children (UK) and by the following research ethics committees: the ethical review committee of the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh; an independent ethics committee in Jamshedpur, India (Eastern India trial); the Nepal Health Research Council (Dhanusha and Makwanpur, Nepal). All trials were conducted in disadvantaged areas with high levels of female illiteracy; all participants gave consent in writing, by thumbprint or verbally.
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