Barriers to leprosy elimination in Bolivia: Exploring perspectives and experiences of medical professionals and leprosy patients–A phenomenological study

• Paula Messa Carmona,

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

  Affiliation Department of Health Ethics and Society, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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• Nita Chaudhuri,

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

  Affiliation Department of Health Ethics and Society, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands

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• Abundio Baptista Mora,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation German Leprosy and Tuberculosis Relief Association (GLRA), Sucre, Bolivia

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• Deisy Zurita Paniagua,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

  Affiliation German Leprosy and Tuberculosis Relief Association (GLRA), Sucre, Bolivia

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• Matthew Willis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: willis@uni-bremen.de

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1475-9915

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• Fabian Schlumberger,

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

  Affiliation Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center (MALC), Karachi, Pakistan

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• Nimer Ortuño-Gutiérrez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Damien Foundation, Brussels, Belgium

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• Anil Fastenau

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, Institute of Public Health and Nursing Research, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, Marie Adelaide Leprosy Center (MALC), Karachi, Pakistan, German Leprosy and Tuberculosis Relief Association (GLRA), Wuerzburg, Germany, Heidelberg Institute of Global Health, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

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