About the Authors

Rajib Chowdhury

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

rajib478@yahoo.com

Affiliations International Center for Diarrhoea Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b), Mohakhali, Bangladesh, National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, Mohakhali, Bangladesh

Vashkar Chowdhury

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Dhaka College, Bangladesh

Shyla Faria

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), Mohakhali, Bangladesh

Sakila Akter

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, Mohakhali, Bangladesh

Aditya Prasad Dash

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Central University of Tamil Nadu, India

Sujit Kumar Bhattacharya

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kothari Medical Centre, West Bengal, India

Narayan Prosad Maheswary

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, Mohakhali, Bangladesh

Caryn Bern

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation UCSF School of Medicine, San Francisco California, United States of America

Shireen Akhter

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute of Preventive and Social Medicine, Mohakhali, Bangladesh

Jorge Alvar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Geneva, Switzerland

Axel Kroeger

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, University of Freiburg, Centre for Medicine and Society/Anthropology, Freiburg, Germany

Marleen Boelaert

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium

Qamar Banu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Asian University for Women, Chittatong, Bangladesh

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.