Health care workers’ knowledge on identification, management and treatment of snakebite cases in rural Malawi: A descriptive study

• Moses Banda Aron ,

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

  * E-mail: mosaron@gmail.com

  Affiliations Partners In Health / Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, Neno, Malawi, Research Group Snakebite Envenoming, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6625-217X

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• Chiyembekezo Kachimanga,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Partners In Health / Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, Neno, Malawi

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• Benno Kreuels,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Research Group Snakebite Envenoming, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Section for Tropical Medicine, I. Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg, Germany

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• Bright Mailosi,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Partners In Health / Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, Neno, Malawi

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• Clara Sambani,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Research, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Beatrice Lydia Matanje,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Partners In Health / Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, Neno, Malawi

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• Joerg Blessmann,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Group Snakebite Envenoming, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany

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• Mwayi Chunga,

  Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Partners In Health / Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, Neno, Malawi

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• Grace Momba,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neno District Health Office, Ministry of Health, Neno, Malawi

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• Enoch Ndarama,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neno District Health Office, Ministry of Health, Neno, Malawi

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• Dzinkambani Moffat Kambalame,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Research, Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Emilia Connolly,

  Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Partners In Health / Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, Neno, Malawi, Division of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America, Division of Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America

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• Anat Rosenthal ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anat Rosenthal, Fabien Munyaneza

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Policy and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel

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• Fabien Munyaneza

  Contributed equally to this work with: Anat Rosenthal, Fabien Munyaneza

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Partners In Health / Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, Neno, Malawi

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