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���This study was funded by the United Nations Development Programme/United Nations Population Fund/World Health Organization/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction and Family Health International.
������Disclaimer: The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this publication, which do not necessarily represent the decisions or policies of the World Health Organization.
���������Investigators: People's Republic of China: Tang Guanghua (principal investigator) and Cui Nian (Family Planning Research Institute of Sichuan, Chengdu). Nepal: B.R. Joshi (principal investigator; Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu). Republic of Korea: Kwang-ho Meng (principal investigator; Catholic University Medical College, Seoul); Dr. Sang Eun Lee (Department of Urology, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul); Dr. Hee Joong Ahn (Department of Urology, Korea Cancer Center Hospital, Seoul); Dr. Yong Hyun Cho (Department of Urology, Catholic University Medical Center, Seoul); Dr. Jong Yun Park (Department of Urology, Kyongsang University Hospital, Jinju); Dr. Han Jong Ahn (Department of Urology, Woolsan University Hospital, Seoul).
���Pathologists: People's Republic of China: Li Yi-Tang (Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu). Nepal: H.G. Shrestha (Institute of Medicine, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu). Republic of Korea: Ja-June Jang (Department of Pathology, Seoul National University, Seoul). Reference pathologists: C. Busch (Department of Pathology, University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden); Dr. I. Sesterhenn (Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC, USA).
������Project coordinators: O. Meirik and T.M.M. Farley (United Nations Development Programme/United Nations Population Fund/World Health Organization/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, Geneva, Switzerland); J. Fortney and P. Schwingl (Family Health International, North Carolina, USA). Data management and analysis: O. Meirik, T.M.M. Farley, S. Boccard, I. Olayinka and M.M. Ali (United Nations Development Programme/United Nations Population Fund/World Health Organization/World Bank Special Programme of Research, Development and Research Training in Human Reproduction, Geneva, Switzerland); P. Schwingl (Family Health International, North Carolina, USA).
