Prevalence assessment of sexually transmitted infections among pregnant women visiting an antenatal care center of Nepal: Pilot of the World Health Organization’s standard protocol for conducting STI prevalence surveys among pregnant women

• Rubee Dev ,

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

  * E-mail: rubee@ualberta.ca

  Affiliation Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1853-9728

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• Shambhu P. Adhikari,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Physiotherapy, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Kavre, Nepal

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• Anjana Dongol,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Kavre, Nepal

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• Surendra K. Madhup,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Microbiology, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Kavre, Nepal

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• Pooja Pradhan,

  Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation World Health Organization- Country Office, Lalitpur, Nepal

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• Sunila Shakya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Kavre, Nepal

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• Shrinkhala Shrestha,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Community Programs, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Kavre, Nepal

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• Sneha Maskey,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Software

  Affiliation Department of Community Programs, Kathmandu University School of Medical Sciences, Dhulikhel, Kavre, Nepal

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• Melanie M. Taylor

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

  Affiliations Department of Global Programmes of HIV, Hepatitis, STI, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of STD Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

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