Namuganga, Jane F.
McDermott, Daniel P.
Epstein, Adrienne
Nankabirwa, Joaniter I.
Gonahasa, Samuel
Opigo, Jimmy
Nabende, Isaiah
Maiteki-Sebuguzi, Catherine
Kamya, Moses R.
Donnelly, Martin J.
Dorsey, Grant
Staedke, Sarah G.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Commonwealth Scholarship Commission
National Institute of Health, USA
Article History
Received: 2 September 2025
Accepted: 1 April 2026
First Online: 5 May 2026
Declarations
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: Ethical approval to conduct this study was sought from Makerere University College of Health Sciences School of Public Health Research and Ethics Committee (SPHREC) in Uganda, approval number SPH-2025-551, and the University of California, San Francisco Ethics Committee, IRB number 24-41185, and reference number 460466. Waiver of informed consent was granted for this study by SPHREC because the study involved extraction of secondary data from patient records without using any personal identifiers. This research conformed to the principles of the Helsinki Declaration.
: AE is the guest editor for the collection ‘Advances in malaria control and elimination’ at BMC Global and Public Health . The remaining authors declare no competing interests.