Impact of annual community-directed treatment with ivermectin on the incidence of epilepsy in Mvolo, a two-year prospective study

• Luís-Jorge Amaral ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luís-Jorge Amaral, Stephen Raimon Jada

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

  * E-mail: luis-jorge.telesdemenesesdoamaral@uantwerpen.be

  Current address: Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Kinsbergen Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium

  Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8155-9014

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• Stephen Raimon Jada ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Luís-Jorge Amaral, Stephen Raimon Jada

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

  Affiliation Amref Health Africa, South Sudan

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• Aimee Kemayou Ndjanfa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Jane Y. Carter,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Amref Health Africa Headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Gasim Abd-Elfarag,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Amref Health Africa, South Sudan, Access for Humanity, Juba, South Sudan, School of Public Health, University of Juba, Juba, South Sudan

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• Samuel Okaro,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Amref Health Africa, South Sudan

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• Makoy Yibi Logora,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Ministry of Health, Juba, South Sudan

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• Yak Yak Bol,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Ministry of Health, Juba, South Sudan

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• Thomson Lakwo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Vector Control Division, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

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• Joseph N Siewe Fodjo,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Robert Colebunders

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

  Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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