About the Authors

Nana Kwadwo Biritwum

Contributed equally to this work with: Nana Kwadwo Biritwum, Kwadwo K. Frempong

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

nkadbiritwum@gmail.com (NKB); kfrempong@noguchi.ug.edu.gh (KKF)

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ghana Health Services (GHS), Accra, Ghana

Kwadwo K. Frempong

Contributed equally to this work with: Nana Kwadwo Biritwum, Kwadwo K. Frempong

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

nkadbiritwum@gmail.com (NKB); kfrempong@noguchi.ug.edu.gh (KKF)

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Public Health, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Suzanne Verver

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Public Health, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Samuel Odoom

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ghana Health Services (GHS), Accra, Ghana

Bright Alomatu

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ghana Health Services (GHS), Accra, Ghana

Odame Asiedu

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ghana Health Services (GHS), Accra, Ghana

Periklis Kontoroupis

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Public Health, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Abednego Yeboah

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ghana Health Services (GHS), Accra, Ghana

Edward Tei Hervie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ghana Health Services (GHS), Accra, Ghana

Benjamin Marfo

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ghana Health Services (GHS), Accra, Ghana

Daniel A. Boakye

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Parasitology, Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research (NMIMR), College of Health Sciences, University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, African Programme for Onchocerciasis Control (APOC), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso

Sake J. de Vlas

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Public Health, Rotterdam, Netherlands

John O. Gyapong

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Ghana, Legon, Ghana, University of Health and Allied Science, Ho, Ghana

Wilma A. Stolk

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Department of Public Health, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Competing Interests

Authors have declared they have no competing interests exists.