Towards elimination: Challenges in community participation to a gHAT ‘screen and treat’ strategy using the new oral drug acoziborole in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

• Catiane Vander Kelen ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cvanderkelen@itg.be

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6862-8986

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• Alain Mpanya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Programme National de la Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Africaine, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Ruth Nzuzi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Programme National de la Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Africaine, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Gérard Watakembi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Freelance anthropologist, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Cathy Mbuyi,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Programme National de la Lutte contre la Trypanosomiase Africaine, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

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• Elena Nicco,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Epco Hasker

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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