"Those who died are the ones that are cured". Walking the political tightrope of Nodding Syndrome in northern Uganda: Emerging challenges for research and policy

• Julia Irani ,

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

  * E-mail: julia.irani@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0224-1794

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• Joseph Rujumba,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Amos Deogratius Mwaka,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, The Ugandan Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

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• Jesca Arach,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Denis Lanyuru,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Richard Idro,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, The Ugandan Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

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• Rene Gerrets,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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• Koen Peeters Grietens ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Sarah O’Neill

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

  ¶‡ These authors share last authorship on this work.

  Affiliations Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium, CRISS, Ecole de Santé Publique and LAMC, Faculté de Philosophie et Sciences Sociales, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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