Effectiveness of ongoing single dose rifampicin post-exposure prophylaxis (SDR-PEP) implementation under routine programme conditions—An observational study in Nepal

• Nand Lal Banstola ,

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

  * E-mail: nbastola123@gmail.com, nandlalbanstola@nlrnepal.org.np

  Affiliation Programme department, NLR, Biratnagar, Koshi, Nepal

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8115-7661

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• Epco Hasker,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mycobacterial Diseases and Neglected Tropical Diseases, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Liesbeth Mieras,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research and Advocacy, NLR IO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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• Dambar Gurung,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Field programme, FAIRMED, Biratnagar, Koshi, Nepal

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• Bhuwan Baral,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Technical department, FAIRMED, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal

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• Suresh Mehata,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health, Health office Morang, Biratnagar, Koshi, Nepal

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• Sagar Prasai,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health, Health office Sunsari, Ineruwa, Koshi, Nepal

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• Yograj Ghimire,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health, Health office Jhapa, Bhadrapur, Koshi, Nepal

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• Brij Kumar Das,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Public Health, Health office Udayapur, Gaighat, Koshi, Nepal

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• Prashnna Napit,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Leprosy Programme, Leprosy Control and Disability Management Section, Kathmandu, Bagmati, Nepal

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• Wim van Brakel

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Technical, NLR IO, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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