The effects of cool roofs on health, environmental, and economic outcomes in rural Africa: study protocol for a community-based cluster randomized controlled trial.

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"Funding Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. Aditi Bunker, Till Bärnighausen, and Guillaume Compoaré were funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [project number: 427397439]. Sandra Barteit was also funded by DFG [project number: 409670289]. Aditi Bunker and Till Bärnighausen were also supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through the Alexander von Humboldt Professor Award to Till Bärnighausen, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Martina Anna Maggioni was funded by the DFG [project number: 409670289]. Mekdim Dereje Regassa was funded by the food4future grant from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research [BMBF, project number: 031B0730A]. Tilman Brück was funded as a Heisenberg professor by the DFG [project number: 434762224]. The funding agencies had no role in the design of the study nor the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the data."

"Trial registration German Clinical Trials Register (DRKS) DRKS00023207. Registered on April 19, 2021."