About the Authors

Dennis W. Juma

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Emerging and Infectious Diseases (DEID), United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa (USAMRD-A), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Kisumu, Kenya

Peninah Muiruri

Roles Data curation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Emerging and Infectious Diseases (DEID), United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa (USAMRD-A), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Kisumu, Kenya, Department of Biochemistry, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya

Krista Yuhas

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington United States of America

Grace John-Stewart

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Global Health, Medicine, Epidemiology, and Pediatrics, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Ronald Ottichilo

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Department of Emerging and Infectious Diseases (DEID), United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa (USAMRD-A), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Kisumu, Kenya

John Waitumbi

Roles Formal analysis, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Department of Emerging and Infectious Diseases (DEID), United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa (USAMRD-A), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Kisumu, Kenya

Benson Singa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Centre for Clinical Research, KEMRI, Nairobi, Kenya

Christina Polyak

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Edwin Kamau

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Edwin.kamau.mil@mail.mil

Affiliations Department of Emerging and Infectious Diseases (DEID), United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa (USAMRD-A), Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Kisumu, Kenya, U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.