About the Authors

Michel Mandro

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Provincial Ministry of Health, Bunia, Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo

Joseph Nelson Siewe Fodjo

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Deby Mukendi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre Neuro-Psycho Pathologique, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Alfred Dusabimana

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

Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Sonia Menon

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

Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Steven Haesendonckx

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Statistics, University of Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium

Richard Lokonda

Roles Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Centre Neuro-Psycho Pathologique, University of Kinshasa, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Swabra Nakato

Roles Data curation, Software, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Francoise Nyisi

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Maladies Tropicales de l'Ituri, Rethy, Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo

Germain Abhafule

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre de Recherche en Maladies Tropicales de l'Ituri, Rethy, Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo

Deogratias Wonya’Rossi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre l’Onchocercose, Bunia, Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo

Jean Marie Jakwong

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Hôpital Général de Référence de Logo, Logo, Ituri, Democratic Republic of Congo

Patrick Suykerbuyk

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Jacques Meganck

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

An Hotterbeekx

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Robert Colebunders

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

robert.colebunders@uantwerpen.be

Affiliation Global Health Institute, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.