About the Authors

Abraham Malaza

Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham Malaza, Joël Mossong

Affiliation Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Joël Mossong

Contributed equally to this work with: Abraham Malaza, Joël Mossong

jmossong@africacentre.ac.za

Affiliation Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Till Bärnighausen

Affiliations Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Johannes Viljoen

Affiliation Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Marie-Louise Newell

Affiliations Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University College London Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM TB ML. Performed the experiments: AM JV. Analyzed the data: AM JM TB. Wrote the paper: AM JM TB JV ML.