Beyond elimination: Assessing healthcare access, knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding leprosy among communities in Lilongwe and Balaka districts of Malawi

• Nathan Singano,

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

  Affiliations Clinical Research Education and Management Services (CREAMS), Anderson House, Lilongwe, Malawi, Department of Disease Control, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Adriano Focus Lubanga,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Research Education and Management Services (CREAMS), Anderson House, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Joshua Kacheyo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Malawi University of Science and Technology, Ndata School of Climate and Earth Sciences, Earth Sciences Department, Limbe, Malawi

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• Akim Bwanali,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Research Education and Management Services (CREAMS), Anderson House, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Leah Zuze,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zomba Central Hospital, Zomba, Malawi

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• Steward Mudenda,

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

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, School of Health Sciences, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Samuel Mpinganjira,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Mahatma Ghandi Campus, Blantyre, Malawi, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

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• Victor Mithi,

  Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Global Health, University of Global Health Equity, Butaro, Rwanda

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• Andrew M. Phiri,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Studies, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Chisoni Mumba

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

  * E-mail: sulemumba@yahoo.com, cmumba@unza.ac.zm

  Affiliation Department of Disease Control, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4662-0876

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