Exploring commercial sex work among transgender women in Nepal: Contributors and stigma—A mixed-method study

• Himani Shree Pokharel ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Himani Shree Pokharel, Shishir Paudel

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

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, CiST College, Pokhara University, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Salau Din Myia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, CiST College, Pokhara University, Kathmandu, Nepal

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• Anisha Chalise,

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

  Affiliation Center for Research on Environment, Health and Population Activities (CREHPA), Lalitpur, Nepal

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• Shishir Paudel

  Contributed equally to this work with: Himani Shree Pokharel, Shishir Paudel

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

  * E-mail: shishirpaudel11@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, CiST College, Pokhara University, Kathmandu, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3077-6697

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