Experiences and practices of traditional healers on snakebite treatment and prevention in rural Malawi

• Moses Banda Aron ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, 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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• Manuel Mulwafu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Bright Mailosi,

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

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

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• Benno Kreuels,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, 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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• Luckson Dullie,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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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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• Jörg Blessmann,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Enoch Ndarama,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Clara Sambani,

  Roles Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Fabien Munyaneza ,

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

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Anat Rosenthal

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

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

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