Visceral leishmaniasis elimination in Ethiopia: insights into epidemiology, transmission, treatment access, and outcome - a systematic review and meta-analysis

Affiliations

• ¹ Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. gelomamo724@gmail.com.
• ² Department of Statistics, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• ³ Department of Statistics, CDT-Africa, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• ⁴ Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, Armauer Hansen Research Institute, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• ⁵ Neglected Tropical Diseases Case Management, World Health Organization, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
• ⁶ Laboratory of Parasitic Eco-Epidemiology and Genetics of Populations, Institut Pasteur of Algiers, Algiers, Algeria.
• ⁷ Department of Public Health of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB), Bamako, Mali.
• ⁸ Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Experimental Pathology/LR16IPT04, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, University of Tunis el Manar, Tunis, Tunisia.
• ⁹ Instituto de Salud Global de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.