About the Authors

Andualem Deneke Beyene

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

‡ Lead authors.

Affiliation Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Fikreab Kebede

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ Lead authors.

Affiliation RTI International, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Belete Mengistu Mammo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RTI International, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Biruck Kebede Negash

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Sightsavers, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Affiliation Federal Ministry of Health, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Addisalem Mihret

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

Affiliation RTI International, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Solomon Abetew

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

Affiliation Regional Health Bureau, Beneshangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia

Asfaw Kejella Oucha

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RTI International, Beneshangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia

Shigute Alene

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RTI International, Beneshangul-Gumuz, Ethiopia

Sharone Backers

Roles Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation RTI International, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Sunny Mante

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation African Filariasis Morbidity Project, Accra, Ghana

Zeina Sifri

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

Current address: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Affiliation Helen Keller International, Washington DC, United States of America

Molly Brady

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

Affiliation RTI International, Washington DC, United States of America

Scott McPherson

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Smcpherson@rti.org

Affiliation RTI International, Washington DC, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.