About the Authors

Raquel Inocencio da Luz

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

rinocencio@itg.be

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Sylvie Linsuke

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Epidemiology Unit, Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Clémentine Roucher

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

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Alain Mpanya

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Ministry of Health, PNLTHA, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Jane Nyandele

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

Affiliation Hubert Kairuki Memorial University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Nono Mubwa Mungwele

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Kwilu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Bienvenue Nsiembele Mboma

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Kwilu, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Katja Polman

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Epco Hasker

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Marleen Boelaert

† Deceased.

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Author Marleen Boelaert was unable to confirm their authorship contributions. On their behalf, the corresponding author has reported their contributions to the best of their knowledge.