Mediating role of food insecurity in the relationship between perceived MSM related stigma and depressive symptoms among men who have sex with men in Nepal

• Kiran Paudel,

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

  Affiliations Nepal Health Frontiers, Tokha-5, Kathmandu, Nepal, Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5590-4133

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• Prashamsa Bhandari,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2546-1279

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• Kamal Gautam,

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

  Affiliation Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America

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• Jeffrey A. Wickersham,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

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• Toan Ha,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States of America

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• Swagata Banik,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Baldwin Wallace University, Berea, OH, United States of America

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• Roman Shrestha

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

  * E-mail: roman.shrestha@uconn.edu

  Affiliations Nepal Health Frontiers, Tokha-5, Kathmandu, Nepal, Department of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, United States of America, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4340-3101

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