About the Authors

Lucy A. Parker

Affiliations Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland, CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Department of Public Health, Universidad Miguel Hernández, Alicante, Spain

John Rumunu

Affiliation Republic of South Sudan Ministry of Health, Juba, South Sudan

Christine Jamet

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Yona Kenyi

Affiliation Republic of South Sudan Ministry of Health, Juba, South Sudan

Richard Laku Lino

Affiliation Republic of South Sudan Ministry of Health, Juba, South Sudan

Joseph F. Wamala

Affiliation World Health Organization, Juba, South Sudan

Allan M. Mpairwe

Affiliation World Health Organization, Juba, South Sudan

Vincent Muller

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Augusto E. Llosa

Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

Florent Uzzeni

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Francisco J. Luquero

Affiliations Epicentre, Paris, France, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Iza Ciglenecki

Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland

Andrew S. Azman

azman@jhu.edu

Affiliations Médecins Sans Frontières, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

ASA and FJL report receiving grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation during the time of this study. All other authors declared no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LAP JR YK CJ FU FJL IC ASA. Data curation: LAP ASA VM. Formal analysis: LAP ASA. Investigation: LAP VM AEL FJL IC ASA. Methodology: LAP VM AEL FJL IC ASA. Project administration: LAP CJ YK JFW AEL FU FJL IC ASA. Supervision: JR RLL AMM. Visualization: LAP ASA. Writing – original draft: LAP. Writing – review & editing: LAP JR CJ YK RLL JFW AMM VM AEL FU FJL IC ASA.