The cost-effectiveness of an eradication programme in the end game: Evidence from guinea worm disease

Christopher Fitzpatrick; Dieudonné P. Sankara; Junerlyn Farah Agua; Lakshmi Jonnalagedda; Filippo Rumi; Adam Weiss; Matthew Braden; Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben; Nicole Kruse; Kate Braband; Gautam Biswas

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0005922

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The cost-effectiveness of an eradication programme in the end game: Evidence from guinea worm disease

Christopher Fitzpatrick ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: fitzpatrickc@who.int

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3067-8328

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Dieudonné P. Sankara,

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Junerlyn Farah Agua,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Lakshmi Jonnalagedda,

Roles Data curation

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Filippo Rumi,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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Adam Weiss,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guinea Worm Eradication Program, The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Matthew Braden,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guinea Worm Eradication Program, The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben,

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Guinea Worm Eradication Program, The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Nicole Kruse,

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Development Office, The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Kate Braband,

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Development Office, The Carter Center, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
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Gautam Biswas

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
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The cost-effectiveness of an eradication programme in the end game: Evidence from guinea worm disease

Christopher Fitzpatrick,
Dieudonné P. Sankara,
Junerlyn Farah Agua,
Lakshmi Jonnalagedda,
Filippo Rumi,
Adam Weiss,
Matthew Braden,
Ernesto Ruiz-Tiben,
Nicole Kruse,
Kate Braband

Published: October 5, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0005922

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