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Gunasekara, Sonali Dinushika https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0925-888X
Wickramasinghe, Nuwan Darshana https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6025-6022
Weerakoon, Kosala Gayan https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4814-6928
Fernando, Manoj Sanjeewa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0494-8769
Liyanage, Chandani https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1959-123X
Price, Helen Philippa https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1537-4390
Agampodi, Suneth Buddhika https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7810-1774
Agampodi, Thilini Chanchala https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7977-6578
Dikomitis, Lisa https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5752-3270
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Article History
Received: 7 June 2025
Accepted: 12 January 2026
First Online: 28 January 2026
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: Our study has been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. We received ethical approval from the Ethics Review Committee of the Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka (ERC/2020/74) and the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Keele University, United Kingdom (Ref.: MH-200123). We obtained written informed consent from all the study participants before data collection. We pseudonymised the field locations and participants, providing them with a participant ID to ensure anonymity.
: We obtained informed written consent from all the study participants for the publication/dissemination of information provided by them without disclosing their identity.
: The senior author of this paper (LD) is an editor of the special collection titled ‘The Role of Social Sciences in Addressing Inequity Related to Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs)’ in the International Journal for Equity in Health.
