About the Authors

Pui-Ying Iroh Tam

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

irohtam@mlw.mw

Affiliations Paediatrics and Child Health Research Group, Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Paediatrics, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Mphatso Chisala

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Paediatrics and Child Health Research Group, Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

Wongani Nyangulu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Current address: University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Affiliation Paediatrics and Child Health Research Group, Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

Herbert Thole

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Paediatrics and Child Health Research Group, Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

James Nyirenda

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Paediatrics and Child Health Research Group, Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

Competing Interests

I have read the journal’s policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: PI has received grants from BMGF outside of the submitted work. All other authors have declared that no competing interests exist.