About the Authors

Diana Boraschi

Affiliation CNR, Pisa, Italy

Markos Abebe Alemayehu

Affiliation AHRI-ALERT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Abraham Aseffa

Affiliation AHRI-ALERT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Francesca Chiodi

Affiliation Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

John Chisi

Affiliation University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Gianfranco Del Prete

Affiliation University of Florence, Florence, Italy

T. Mark Doherty

Affiliation Statens Serum Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ibrahim Elhassan

Affiliation University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan

Howard Engers

Affiliation AHRI-ALERT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ben Gyan

Affiliation Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Legon, Ghana

Ali M. Harandi

Affiliation University of Göteborg, Göteborg, Sweden

Thomas Kariuki

Affiliation Institute of Primate Research, Nairobi, Kenya

Fred Kironde

Affiliation University of Makerere, Kampala, Uganda

Bourema Kouriba

Affiliation University of Mali, Bamako, Mali

Jean Langhorne

Affiliation National Institute of Medical Research, London, United Kingdom

Tamás Laskay

Affiliation University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany

Donata Medaglini

Affiliation University of Siena, Siena, Italy

Ole Olesen

Affiliation EU Commission, Bruxelles, Belgium

Philip Onyebujoh

Affiliation WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Carla Palma

Affiliation ISS, Rome, Italy

Robert Sauerwein

Affiliation Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Elopy Sibanda

Affiliation University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

Ulrich Steinhoff

Affiliation MPIIB, Berlin, Germany

Aldo Tagliabue

tagliabue@altaweb.eu

Affiliation ALTA, Siena, Italy

Andreas Thiel

Affiliation Deutsches Rheuma Forschungs Zentrum, Berlin, Germany

Mahnaz Vahedi

Affiliation WHO, Geneva, Switzerland

Marita Troye-Blomberg

Affiliation Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.