Acharya et al. Respond.

Am J Public Health

Arnab Acharya is with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, England. Leila Caleb Varkey is with the White Ribbon Alliance, New Delhi, India. Lysander Menezes is with the Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), New Delhi. Julie Knoll-Rajaratnam and Jeff Bernson are with PATH, Seattle, WA. Tanya Lalwani is with PATH, South San Francisco, CA. Jenny Ruducha is with the Center for Global Health and Development, Boston University, Boston, MA. Rahul Dutta is at the Clinton Health Access Initiative, New Delhi.

Published: July 2015

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