Challenges of proper disposal of old long-lasting insecticidal nets and its alternative uses in rural south-eastern Tanzania

• Sheila J. Msangi ,

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

  * E-mail: shsalum@ihi.or.tz

  Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, School of Life Sciences and Bio Engineering, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6161-2129

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• Winifrida P. Mponzi,

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

  Affiliation Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania

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• Letus L. Muyaga,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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• Joel D. Nkya,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation

  Affiliation Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania

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• Yohana A. Mwalugelo,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology, Bondo, Kenya

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• Hajirani M. Msuya,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania

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• Dickson W. Lwetoijera,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, School of Life Sciences and Bio Engineering, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

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• Emmanuel W. Kaindoa

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

  Affiliations Environmental Health and Ecological Sciences Department, Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania, School of Life Sciences and Bio Engineering, The Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, Faculty of Health Sciences, School of Pathology, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, University of the Witwatersrand and the Centre for Emerging Zoonotic and Parasitic Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

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