Community-directed treatment with ivermectin in Maridi, South Sudan: Impact of an onchocerciasis awareness campaign and bi-annual treatment on therapeutic coverage

• Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Moses Okwii,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Kampala University, Juba, Republic of South Sudan

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• Stephen Raimon Jada,

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

  Affiliation Amref Health Africa, Juba, Republic of South Sudan

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• Amber Hadermann,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Jacopo Rovarini,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Amref Health Africa, Juba, Republic of South Sudan

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• Luis-Jorge Amaral,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Rogers Nditanchou,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Sightsavers, Yaoundé, Cameroon

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• Yak Yak Bol,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Ministry of Health, Juba, Republic of South Sudan,

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• Makoy Y. Logora,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neglected Tropical Diseases Unit, Ministry of Health, Juba, Republic of South Sudan,

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• Jane Y. Carter,

  Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Amref Health Africa Headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Johan Willems,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Christoffel-Blindenmission/ Christian Blind Mission e.V. (CBM), Bensheim, Germany

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• Robert Colebunders

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

  * E-mail: robert.colebunders@uantwerpen.be

  Affiliations Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, Department of Tropical Disease Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0009-0006-0691-3697

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