Is routine Vitamin A supplementation still justified for children in Nepal? Trial synthesis findings applied to Nepal national mortality estimates

• Samjhana Shrestha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Samjhana Shrestha, Khem Narayan Pokhrel

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

  Affiliations Birat Nepal Medical Trust (BNMT), READ-It Project, Kathmandu, Nepal, Centre for Evidence Synthesis in Global Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Saki Thapa,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Birat Nepal Medical Trust (BNMT), READ-It Project, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Paul Garner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Evidence Synthesis in Global Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0607-6941

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• Maxine Caws,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Birat Nepal Medical Trust (BNMT), READ-It Project, Kathmandu, Nepal, Department of Clinical Sciences, Center for Drugs and Diagnostics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Suman Chandra Gurung,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Birat Nepal Medical Trust (BNMT), READ-It Project, Kathmandu, Nepal, Department of Clinical Sciences, Center for Drugs and Diagnostics, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Tilly Fox,

  Roles Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Evidence Synthesis in Global Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3627-1016

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• Richard Kirubakaran,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Prof BV Moses Centre for Evidence-Informed Healthcare and Health Policy, Vellore, India

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• Khem Narayan Pokhrel

  Contributed equally to this work with: Samjhana Shrestha, Khem Narayan Pokhrel

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: pokhrelkhemn@gmail.com

  Affiliation Birat Nepal Medical Trust (BNMT), READ-It Project, Kathmandu, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6956-1672

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