Barriers and facilitators to community acceptability of integrating point-of-care testing to screen for sickle cell disease in children in primary healthcare settings in rural Upper East Region of Northern Ghana

• Samuel T. Chatio ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: schatio@yahoo.co.uk

  Affiliation Navrongo Health Research Center, Navrongo, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9998-748X

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• Enyonam Duah,

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

  Affiliation Navrongo Health Research Center, Navrongo, Ghana

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• Lucy O. Ababio,

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

  Affiliation Navrongo Health Research Center, Navrongo, Ghana

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• Nicola Lister,

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

  Affiliation Global Health & Sustainability, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

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• Olufolake Egbujo,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health & Sustainability, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

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• Kwaku Marfo,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health & Sustainability, Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland

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• Raymond Aborigo,

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

  Affiliation Navrongo Health Research Center, Navrongo, Ghana

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• Patrick Ansah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Navrongo Health Research Center, Navrongo, Ghana

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• Isaac Odame

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

  Affiliation Hemoglobinopathy Program, The Hospital For Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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