Challenges and opportunities in the development and implementation of zero leprosy roadmaps in low-endemic settings: Experiences from Bolivia, Pakistan, and Togo

• Anil Fastenau ,

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

  * E-mail: fastenau@uni-bremen.de, anil.fastenau@DAHW.de

  Affiliations Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center (MALC), Karachi, Pakistan, German Leprosy and Tuberculosis Relief Association (GLRA), Wuerzburg, Germany, Department of Health, Ethics & Society, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Department of Global Health, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health (HIGH), University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0009-0009-8495-8227

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• Felicitas Schwermann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation German Leprosy and Tuberculosis Relief Association (GLRA), Wuerzburg, Germany

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• Abundio Baptista Mora,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Damien Foundation, Santa Cruz, Bolivia

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• Issaka Maman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institut National d’Hygiène, Lomé, Togo

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• Thomas Hambridge,

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

  Affiliation Erasmus MC, University Medical Centre Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

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• Matthew Willis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center (MALC), Karachi, Pakistan, Department of Global Health, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

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• Sundeep Chaitanya Vedithi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, American Leprosy Missions, Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America

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• Nimer Ortuño-Gutiérrez

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

  Affiliation Damien Foundation, Brussels, Belgium

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