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¹ Centre for Sexuality and Health Research and Policy (C-SHaRP), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
² Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
³ Center for Global Health and Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States.
⁶ Health Equity Action Learnings (HEAL) Foundation, Chandigarh, India.
⁷ Department of Surveillance & Epidemiology (Strategic Information), National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
⁸ Department of Evaluation and Operational Research (Strategic Information), National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
⁹ Department of Prevention and Sampoorna Suraksha, National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India.

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Venkatesan Chakrapani et al. Indian J Med Res. 2025 May.

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. 2025 May;161(5):576-578.

doi: 10.25259/IJMR_1573_2025.

¹ Centre for Sexuality and Health Research and Policy (C-SHaRP), Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
² Department of Community Medicine and School of Public Health, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India.
³ Center for Global Health and Mongan Institute, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States.
⁴ Harvard Medical School, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States.
⁵ Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States.
⁶ Health Equity Action Learnings (HEAL) Foundation, Chandigarh, India.
⁷ Department of Surveillance & Epidemiology (Strategic Information), National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
⁸ Department of Evaluation and Operational Research (Strategic Information), National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India.
⁹ Department of Prevention and Sampoorna Suraksha, National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, New Delhi, India.

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