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Research Article
Barriers to epilepsy care: Measuring the treatment gap in rural and peri-urban districts in Ghana
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Emmanuel Kwame Darkwa ,
Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ Denotes joint co-authors.
Affiliations Dodowa Health Research Centre, Research and Development Division, Accra, Ghana, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana, Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
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Patrick Adjei ,
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
¶‡ Denotes joint co-authors.
Affiliations University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Korle Bu, Accra, Ghana
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Sabina Asiamah,
Roles Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Dodowa Health Research Centre, Research and Development Division, Accra, Ghana, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
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Elizabeth Awini,
Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Dodowa Health Research Centre, Research and Development Division, Accra, Ghana, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
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Cynthia Sottie,
Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
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Anthony Godi,
Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
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John E. Williams,
Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Dodowa Health Research Centre, Research and Development Division, Accra, Ghana, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
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Frank Atuguba,
Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Dodowa Health Research Centre, Research and Development Division, Accra, Ghana, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
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Fuseini Sataru,
Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Dodowa Health Research Centre, Research and Development Division, Accra, Ghana
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Alexander Adjei,
Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Dodowa Health Research Centre, Research and Development Division, Accra, Ghana, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana
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Arjune Sen,
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Oxford Epilepsy Research Group, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Charles R. Newton,
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Oxford Epilepsy Research Group, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Anthony Danso-Appiah,
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana, Centre for Evidence Synthesis and Policy, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Ghana
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J. Helen Cross,
Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation UCL Great Ormond Street NIHR BRC Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
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Josemir W. Sander ,
Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: a_akpalu@yahoo.com (AA); l.sander@ucl.ac.uk (JWS)
Affiliations UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, London, United Kingdom, Department of Neurology, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China
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Albert Akpalu ,
Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing
* E-mail: a_akpalu@yahoo.com (AA); l.sander@ucl.ac.uk (JWS)
Affiliations University of Ghana Medical School, Accra, Ghana, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Korle Bu, Accra, Ghana
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¶Membership of the EPInA Study Group is listed in the Acknowledgments.
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Barriers to epilepsy care: Measuring the treatment gap in rural and peri-urban districts in Ghana
- Emmanuel Kwame Darkwa,
- Patrick Adjei,
- Sabina Asiamah,
- Elizabeth Awini,
- Cynthia Sottie,
- Anthony Godi,
- John E. Williams,
- Frank Atuguba,
- Fuseini Sataru,
- Alexander Adjei
- Published: August 11, 2026
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0355854