About the Authors

Sylvia Kokunda

Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Kokunda, Haven Nahabwe, Nicole Redvers

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Action for Batwa Empowerment Group, Kanungu District, Uganda

Haven Nahabwe

Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Kokunda, Haven Nahabwe, Nicole Redvers

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Bwindi Community Hospital, Community Health and Batwa Department, Kanungu, Uganda

Jeremiah Nahamya

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Action for Batwa Empowerment Group, Kanungu District, Uganda

Samari Niwamanya

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Action for Batwa Empowerment Group, Kanungu District, Uganda

Ronald Mazirwe

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Action for Batwa Empowerment Group, Kanungu District, Uganda

Samrawit Gougsa

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Minority Rights Group, London, United Kingdom, The Hub at Wellcome Collection, London, United Kingdom

Elizabeth Kemigisha

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Human Development and Relational Sciences, Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda, African Population and Health Research Center, Nairobi, Kenya

Nicole Redvers

Contributed equally to this work with: Sylvia Kokunda, Haven Nahabwe, Nicole Redvers

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nredvers@uwo.ca

Affiliation Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.