Social and healthcare-seeking experiences of people affected with lymphedema in Bangladesh

• Kamrun Nahar Koly ,

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

  * E-mail: koly@icddrb.org

  Affiliation Health System and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2466-8139

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• Jobaida Saba ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jobaida Saba, Zinnatun Nessa, Farhana Rahman Luba, Milena Simic, Laura Dean, Julian Eaton

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Health System and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Zinnatun Nessa ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jobaida Saba, Zinnatun Nessa, Farhana Rahman Luba, Milena Simic, Laura Dean, Julian Eaton

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

  Affiliation Health System and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Farhana Rahman Luba ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jobaida Saba, Zinnatun Nessa, Farhana Rahman Luba, Milena Simic, Laura Dean, Julian Eaton

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

  Affiliation Health System and Population Studies Division, International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr, b), Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Irin Hossain ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Occupational and Environmental Health (OEH), National Institute of Preventive & Social Medicine, Mohakhali, Dhaka, Bangladesh, Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• M M Aktaruzzaman ,

  Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Md. Golam Rabbani ,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Public Health Foundation, Dhaka, Bangladesh

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• Milena Simic ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jobaida Saba, Zinnatun Nessa, Farhana Rahman Luba, Milena Simic, Laura Dean, Julian Eaton

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Global Health & Intersectional Equity Research, University of Essex, Colchester, Essex, United Kingdom

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• Laura Dean ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jobaida Saba, Zinnatun Nessa, Farhana Rahman Luba, Milena Simic, Laura Dean, Julian Eaton

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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• Julian Eaton

  Contributed equally to this work with: Jobaida Saba, Zinnatun Nessa, Farhana Rahman Luba, Milena Simic, Laura Dean, Julian Eaton

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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