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    <journal-meta>
      <journal-id>authorea</journal-id>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>Authorea</publisher-name>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15200/winn.149926.62634</article-id>
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        <article-title>PLOS Science Wednesday: Hi Reddit, I&amp;#x2019;m Sara Carazo and my recent PLOS
NTDS article discusses the challenges of implementing a clinical trial
during the Ebola emergency in Guinea &amp;#x2013; Ask Me Anything!</article-title>
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      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes">
          <name>
            <surname>PLOSScienceWednesday</surname>
            <given-names/>
          </name>
        </contrib>
        <contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="no">
          <name>
            <surname>AMAs</surname>
            <given-names>r/Science</given-names>
          </name>
        </contrib>
      </contrib-group>
      <pub-date date-type="preprint" publication-format="electronic">
        <day>17</day>
        <month>4</month>
        <year>2023</year>
      </pub-date>
      <self-uri xlink:href="https://doi.org/10.15200/winn.149926.62634">This preprint is available at https://doi.org/10.15200/winn.149926.62634</self-uri>
      <abstract abstract-type="abstract">
        <p>Hi Reddit, I am Sara Carazo, a medical doctor working for a long time
with MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières). In 2005 I participated to the MSF
response to a Marburg epidemic in Angola and in December 2014-January
2015 I was the MSF medical referent person for the Ebola clinical trial
testing favipiravir in Gueckédou, Guinea. Since 2014 I am doing a PhD in
Epidemiology at Laval University, Québec. My current research topic is
on measles vaccination. My colleagues and I recently published in PLOS
NTDS the article: Challenges in preparing and implementing a clinical
trial at field level in an Ebola emergency: A case study in Guinea, West
Africa. It is a viewpoint where we critically review all the challenges
that we encountered to implement a clinical trial in the context of an
uncontrolled Ebola virus epidemic and a vulnerable resource-poor setting
of rural Guinea. I will be answering you questions at 1pm ET – Ask Me
Anything!</p>
      </abstract>
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