About the Authors

Laura Dean

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

laura.dean@lstmed.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Kim Ozano

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Oluwatosin Adekeye

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sightsavers, Nigeria Country Office, Kaduna State, Nigeria

Ruth Dixon

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sightsavers, Research Team, Haywards Heath, United Kingdom

Ebua Gallus Fung

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations COUNTDOWN, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and Environment, Buea, Cameroon, COUNTDOWN, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

Margaret Gyapong

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Health Research, University of Allied Sciences, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana

Sunday Isiyaku

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sightsavers, Nigeria Country Office, Kaduna State, Nigeria

Karsor Kollie

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Ministry of Health, Government of Liberia, Monrovia, Monsterrado, Liberia

Vida Kukula

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Social Science Department, Dodowa Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Services, Dodowa, Ghana

Luret Lar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sightsavers, Nigeria Country Office, Kaduna State, Nigeria

Eleanor MacPherson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Christine Makia

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Estelle Kouokam Magne

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Dum-Buo Nnamdi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations COUNTDOWN, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and Environment, Buea, Cameroon, COUNTDOWN, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

Theobald Mue Nji

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations COUNTDOWN, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and Environment, Buea, Cameroon, COUNTDOWN, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social and Management Sciences, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

Uduak Ntuen

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Neglected Tropical Disease Programme, Federal Ministry of Health, Government of Nigeria, Abuja, Nigeria

Akinola Oluwole

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sightsavers, Nigeria Country Office, Kaduna State, Nigeria

Helen Piotrowski

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Marlene Siping

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Marlene Ntsinda Tchoffo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Louis-Albert Tchuem Tchuenté

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Schistosomiasis and Parasitology, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Rachael Thomson

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Irene Tsey

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institutional Review Board, Dodowa Health Research Centre, Ghana Health Service, Dodowa, Ghana

Samuel Wanji

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations COUNTDOWN, Research Foundation for Tropical Diseases and Environment, Buea, Cameroon, COUNTDOWN, Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

James Yashiyi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Sightsavers, Nigeria Country Office, Kaduna State, Nigeria

Georgina Zawolo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Liberia Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation, Monrovia, Monsterrado, Liberia

Sally Theobald

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

Affiliation Department of International Public Health, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Pembroke Place, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.