Development and implementation of a strategy for intensified screening for gambiense human African trypanosomiasis in Kongo Central province, DRC

• Crispin Lumbala ,

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

  * E-mail: crispinlumbala@gmail.com

  Affiliations Directorate of Disease Control, Ministry of Public Health, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Global Health Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8892-1610

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• Simon Kayembe,

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

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

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• Jacquies Makabuza,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Programme National de Lutte Contre la Trypanosomiase Humaine Africaine, Kinshasa, République Démocratique du Congo

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• Pascal Lutumba,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kinshasa University, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

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• Jean-Pierre Van Geertruyden,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Paul R. Bessell,

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

  Affiliation Epi Interventions, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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• Joseph Mathu Ndung’u

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), Geneva, Switzerland

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