‘They eat it like sweets’: A mixed methods study of antibiotic perceptions and their use among patients, prescribers and pharmacists in a district hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan

• Doris Burtscher ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: doris.burtscher@vienna.msf.org, doris.burtscher@gmail.com

  Affiliation Vienna Evaluation Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières, Vienna, Austria

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3035-5884

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• Rafael Van den Bergh,

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

  Affiliation Operational Centre Brussels, Médecins Sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6277-8713

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• Masood Nasim,

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

  Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan

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• Gbane Mahama,

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

  Affiliation Operational Centre Brussels, Médecins Sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium

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• Sokhieng Au,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Operational Centre Brussels, Médecins Sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium

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• Anita Williams,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Operational Research (LuxOR) Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières, Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Middle East Medical Unit (MEMU), Médecins Sans Frontières, Beirut, Lebanon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5295-8451

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• Abdul Sattar,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ahmad Shah Baba Hospital, Ministry of Public Health, Kabul, Afghanistan

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• Suzanne Penfold,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Independent Public Health Research Consultant, Trnava, Slovakia

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• Catherine Van Overloop,

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Operational Centre Brussels, Médecins Sans Frontières, Brussels, Belgium

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• Sahar Bajis

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

  Affiliation The Kirby Institute, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia

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