Sesay, Ibrahim Juldeh
Sesay, Samira
Wurie-Kamara, Haja
Tengbe, Sia Morenike
Fullah, Sullaiman
Vangahun, Dora
Gandi, Ibrahim
de Siqueira Filha, Noemia Teixeira
Lakshman, Rajith
Conteh, Abu
Saidu, Samuel
Koroma, Braima
Mansaray, Bintu
Elsey, Helen
Whittaker, Lana
Dean, Laura
Georgi, Neele Wiltgen
Nganda, Motto
Refell, Francis
Macarthy, Joseph M.
Leyland, Alastair H.
Tolhurst, Rachel
Kibuchi, Eliud
Funding for this research was provided by:
UKRI Collective Fund award (ES/S00811X/1)
Medical Research Council (MC_UU_00022/2)
Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office (SPHSU17)
Article History
Received: 15 January 2025
Accepted: 2 April 2026
First Online: 14 April 2026
Declarations
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: The ethical approval for the data collection was obtained from the Sierra Leone Ethics and Scientific Review Committee (SLESRC: 026/04/2023) and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (21 − 007). All study procedures were in accordance with national ethical standards on human experimentation and with the Helsinki Declaration.
: All interviewees completed informed consent prior to data collection.
: The authors declare no competing interests.