About the Authors
- Parthasarathy Krishnamurthy
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* E-mail: partha@uh.edu
Affiliations Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Institute for Health Care Marketing, C. T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas, United States of America
- Sam K. Hui
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Affiliation Department of Marketing and Entrepreneurship, C. T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, United States of America
- Narayanan Shivkumar
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Affiliation Swasti Health Resource Center, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Chandrasekhar Gowda
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Affiliation Swades Foundation, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- R. Pushpalatha
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Affiliation Swathi Mahila Sangha, Bangalore, Karnataka, India
Competing Interests
PK and SKH have no competing interests. Shivkumar presently works for, and Gowda used to work for, Swasti Health Resource Center, which houses the Pragati Project in collaboration with Swathi Mahila Sangha, a Sex worker Co-operative. Project Pragati is partly funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Pushpalatha is the liaison from Swathi Mahila Sangha, which is partly funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: PK. Analyzed the data: PK SKH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CG NS RP. Wrote the paper: PK SKH CG NS RP.