Assessing antimicrobial use patterns in Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM) health facilities: A cross-sectional study protocol

• Evans Chimayi Chirambo ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ecchirambo@mlw.mw

  Affiliations Department of Health Programmes, Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM), Lilongwe, Malawi, Malaria Department, Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Programme (MLW), Blantyre, Malawi, School of Life Sciences and Allied Health Professions, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHES), Blantyre, Malawi

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2195-8931

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• Francis Kachidza Chiumia ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francis Kachidza Chiumia, Dumisani Nkhoma, Collins Mitambo

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

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Allied Health Professions, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHES), Blantyre, Malawi

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3548-8061

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• Dumisani Nkhoma ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francis Kachidza Chiumia, Dumisani Nkhoma, Collins Mitambo

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

  Affiliation Department of Health Programmes, Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM), Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Collins Mitambo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francis Kachidza Chiumia, Dumisani Nkhoma, Collins Mitambo

  Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Institute of Malawi, Ministry of Health-Antimicrobial Resistance National Coordinating Centre (MOH-AMR-NCC), Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Sharon Odeo ,

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

  ¶‡ SO, PK, IC, SM, and EM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Health Programmes, Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network (EPN), Kilimani, Nairobi, Kenya

  https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8069-4446

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• Patience Khomani ,

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

  ¶‡ SO, PK, IC, SM, and EM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Ekwendeni College of Health Sciences (ECOHS), Mzuzu, Mzimba, Malawi

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• Innocent Chibwe ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources

  ¶‡ SO, PK, IC, SM, and EM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Public Health Institute of Malawi, Ministry of Health-Antimicrobial Resistance National Coordinating Centre (MOH-AMR-NCC), Lilongwe, Malawi

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2252-0993

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• Simon Matchado ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization

  ¶‡ SO, PK, IC, SM, and EM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of IT, Pharmacy and Medicines Regulatory Authority (PMRA), Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Pacharo Matchere,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Health Programmes, Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM), Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Beatrice Chiweza,

  Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Health Programmes, Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM), Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Elled Mwenyekonde ,

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

  ¶‡ SO, PK, IC, SM, and EM also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Health Programmes, Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM), Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Elizabeth Kampira,

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Allied Health Professions, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHES), Blantyre, Malawi

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• Happy Makala

  Roles Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Health Programmes, Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM), Lilongwe, Malawi

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