About the Authors

Fredros Okumu

Contributed equally to this work with: Fredros Okumu, Margaret Gyapong, Núria Casamitjana, Marcia C. Castro, Maurice A. Itoe, Friday Okonofua, Marcel Tanner

fredros@ihi.or.tz

Affiliation Ifakara Health Institute, Ifakara, Tanzania

Margaret Gyapong

Contributed equally to this work with: Fredros Okumu, Margaret Gyapong, Núria Casamitjana, Marcia C. Castro, Maurice A. Itoe, Friday Okonofua, Marcel Tanner

Affiliation Centre for Health Policy and Implementation Research, Institute of Health Research, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana

Núria Casamitjana

Contributed equally to this work with: Fredros Okumu, Margaret Gyapong, Núria Casamitjana, Marcia C. Castro, Maurice A. Itoe, Friday Okonofua, Marcel Tanner

Affiliation Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Hospital Clinic–University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

Marcia C. Castro

Contributed equally to this work with: Fredros Okumu, Margaret Gyapong, Núria Casamitjana, Marcia C. Castro, Maurice A. Itoe, Friday Okonofua, Marcel Tanner

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Maurice A. Itoe

Contributed equally to this work with: Fredros Okumu, Margaret Gyapong, Núria Casamitjana, Marcia C. Castro, Maurice A. Itoe, Friday Okonofua, Marcel Tanner

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Friday Okonofua

Contributed equally to this work with: Fredros Okumu, Margaret Gyapong, Núria Casamitjana, Marcia C. Castro, Maurice A. Itoe, Friday Okonofua, Marcel Tanner

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medicine, University of Benin, Benin City, Nigeria

Marcel Tanner

Contributed equally to this work with: Fredros Okumu, Margaret Gyapong, Núria Casamitjana, Marcia C. Castro, Maurice A. Itoe, Friday Okonofua, Marcel Tanner

Affiliations Department of Medical Parasitology and Infection Biology, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.