Community perceptions of paediatric severe anaemia in Uganda

Aggrey Dhabangi; Richard Idro; Chandy C. John; Walter H. Dzik; Godfrey E. Siu; Robert O. Opoka; Florence Ayebare; Michael B. van Hensbroek

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0209476

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Community perceptions of paediatric severe anaemia in Uganda

Aggrey Dhabangi ,

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

* E-mail: adhabangi@gmail.com

Affiliation Child Health and Development Centre, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5615-3925

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Richard Idro,

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
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Chandy C. John,

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ryan White Centre for Paediatric Infectious Disease and Global Health, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, United States of America
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Walter H. Dzik,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pathology (Transfusion), Harvard University / Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America
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Godfrey E. Siu,

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

Affiliation Child Health and Development Centre, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
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Robert O. Opoka,

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
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Florence Ayebare,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Child Health and Development Centre, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda
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Michael B. van Hensbroek

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Child Health, Emma Children's Hospital, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Community perceptions of paediatric severe anaemia in Uganda

Aggrey Dhabangi,
Richard Idro,
Chandy C. John,
Walter H. Dzik,
Godfrey E. Siu,
Robert O. Opoka,
Florence Ayebare,
Michael B. van Hensbroek

Published: January 3, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0209476

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