About the Authors

Takalani Girly Nemungadi

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

takalaninemungadi@gmail.com

Affiliations Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, World Health Organisation, Emergency Preparedness and Response, Pretoria, South Africa

Tsakani Furumele

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Communicable Disease Control Directorate, National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa

Absalom Mwazha

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Department of Anatomical Pathology, National Health Laboratory Services, Durban, South Africa

Myra Taylor

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Saloshni Naidoo

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Eyrun F. Kjetland

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Discipline of Public Health Medicine, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Department of Global Health and Department of Infectious Diseases Ullevaal, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.