School absenteeism among children and adolescents aged 6–19 years with sickle cell disease in Uganda: A comparative cross-sectional study

• Juliane Peninah Nattimba ,

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

  * E-mail: nattimbapenina@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0009-0001-4757-8905

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• Sabrina Bakeera-Kitaka,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Joseph Rujumba,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Ruth Namazzi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Ivan Segawa,

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

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4535-1694

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• Kizza Lubega,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Makerere University Joint AIDS Program, Kampala, Uganda

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• Alphonse Taban,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Orthopedics, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Edison Mworozi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Phillip Kasirye,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Deogratias Munube,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Grace Ndeezi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Sarah Kiguli,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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• Thereza Piloya

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

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