Impact of beliefs on perception of newborn illness, caregiver behaviors, and care-seeking practices in Zambia’s Southern province

• Kasthuri Sivalogan,

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

  Affiliations Emory Global Health Institute at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Bowen Banda,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zambian Center for Applied Health Research and Development, Limited, Lusaka, Zambia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8673-8318

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• John Wagner,

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

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Godfrey Biemba,

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Zambian Center for Applied Health Research and Development, Limited, Lusaka, Zambia, National Health Research Authority, University Teaching Hospital Paediatric Centre of Excellence, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Natalie Gagne,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Canadian Federal Department of Indigenous Services Canada, Gatineau, Canada

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• Caroline Grogan,

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

  Affiliation Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Fern Hamomba,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zambian Center for Applied Health Research and Development, Limited, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Julie M. Herlihy,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Catherine Mabeta,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zambian Center for Applied Health Research and Development, Limited, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Peggy Shankoti,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zambian Center for Applied Health Research and Development, Limited, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Grace Simamvwa,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zambian Center for Applied Health Research and Development, Limited, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Bernadine Sooli †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Zambian Center for Applied Health Research and Development, Limited, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Kojo Yeboah-Antwi,

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

  Affiliation Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Davidson H. Hamer ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Davidson H. Hamer, Katherine E. A. Semrau

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

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Zambian Center for Applied Health Research and Development, Limited, Lusaka, Zambia, Department of Medicine, Section of Infectious Diseases, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4700-1495

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• Katherine E. A. Semrau

  Contributed equally to this work with: Davidson H. Hamer, Katherine E. A. Semrau

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

  * E-mail: ksemrau@ariadnelabs.org

  Affiliations Ariadne Labs, Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8360-1391

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