Caregivers’ use of herbal and conventional medicine to treat children with sickle cell disease at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Eastern Uganda: A cross-sectional study

Consiliate Apolot; Samuel Baker Obakiro; David Mukunya; Peter Olupot-Olupot; Joseph K. B. Matovu

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0291008

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Caregivers’ use of herbal and conventional medicine to treat children with sickle cell disease at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Eastern Uganda: A cross-sectional study

Consiliate Apolot ,

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

* E-mail: consiliate511@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Community and Public Health, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbale, Uganda

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8180-6134

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Samuel Baker Obakiro,

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbale, Uganda, Natural Products Research and Innovation Centre, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbale, Uganda
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David Mukunya,

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community and Public Health, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbale, Uganda
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Peter Olupot-Olupot,

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Community and Public Health, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbale, Uganda, Mbale Clinical Research Institute, Mbale, Uganda
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Joseph K. B. Matovu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Community and Public Health, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbale, Uganda, Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda
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Caregivers’ use of herbal and conventional medicine to treat children with sickle cell disease at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, Eastern Uganda: A cross-sectional study

Consiliate Apolot,
Samuel Baker Obakiro,
David Mukunya,
Peter Olupot-Olupot,
Joseph K. B. Matovu

Published: September 8, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0291008

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