Reproductive, Female and Child Health

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The International Committee of Medical Journal Editors define a clinical trial as “any research project that prospectively assigns people or a group of people to an intervention, with or without concurrent comparison or control groups, to study the relationship between a health-related intervention anda health outcome. Health-related interventions are those used to modify a biomedical or health-re…