Unveiling the hidden burden: Exploring the psychosocial impact of cutaneous leishmaniasis lesions and scars in southern Ethiopia

• Behailu Merdekios ,

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

  * E-mail: merdekib@tcd.ie

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8378-241X

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• Misgun Shewangizaw,

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

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

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• Abebayehu Sappo,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Department of Public Health, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

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• Eshetu Ewunetu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Social Anthropology, Arba Minch University, Arba Minch, Ethiopia

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• Johan van Griensven,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Jean-Pierre van geertruyden,

  Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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• Melissa Ceuterick,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Health and Demographic Research, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1376-9524

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• Hilde Bastiaens

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Population Health, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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