Economic benefits and costs of surgery for filarial hydrocele in Malawi

Larry Sawers; Eileen Stillwaggon; John Chiphwanya; Square Z. Mkwanda; Hannah Betts; Sarah Martindale; Louise A. Kelly-Hope

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0008003

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Economic benefits and costs of surgery for filarial hydrocele in Malawi

Larry Sawers ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Larry Sawers, Eileen Stillwaggon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: lsawers@american.edu (LS); stillwaggon@gettysburg.edu (ES)

Affiliation Department of Economics, American University, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America
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Eileen Stillwaggon ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Larry Sawers, Eileen Stillwaggon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: lsawers@american.edu (LS); stillwaggon@gettysburg.edu (ES)

Affiliation Department of Economics, Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5196-5270

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John Chiphwanya,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
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Square Z. Mkwanda,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
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Hannah Betts,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Department of Tropical Disease Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Sarah Martindale,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Department of Tropical Disease Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Louise A. Kelly-Hope

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Neglected Tropical Diseases, Department of Tropical Disease Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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Economic benefits and costs of surgery for filarial hydrocele in Malawi

Larry Sawers,
Eileen Stillwaggon,
John Chiphwanya,
Square Z. Mkwanda,
Hannah Betts,
Sarah Martindale,
Louise A. Kelly-Hope

Published: March 25, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008003

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