About the Authors

Lucy Gilson

lucy.gilson@uct.ac.za

Affiliations School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Kara Hanson

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Kabir Sheikh

Affiliation Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India

Irene Akua Agyepong

Affiliation Ghana Health Service/School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Freddie Ssengooba

Affiliation School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Sara Bennett

Affiliation Health Systems Programme, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: LG KH KS IA FS SB. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: LG KH KS IA FS SB. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: LG KH KS IA FS SB. Agree with manuscript's results and conclusions: LG KH KS IA FS SB.