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"Funding: The 2016 BMMS was funded by the Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, the USAID Mission in Bangladesh, and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development. This publication was produced with the support of USAID under the terms of USAID’s Research for Decision Makers Activity cooperative agreement No. AID-388-A-17-00006 and of Data for Impact associate award No. 7200AA18LA00008. Additional support was provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Development of the US National Institutes of Health under award number P2C HD050924. icddr,b is grateful to its core donors – the Government of Bangladesh, Canada (Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade and Development), Sweden (Sida), and the United Kingdom (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) – for their long-term financial support. The views expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States government or USAID."