About the Authors

Anna Jonas

Affiliation Directorate of Special Programmes, Republic of Namibia Ministry of Health and Social Services, Windhoek, Namibia

Victor Sumbi

Affiliation Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems, Management Sciences for Health, Windhoek, Namibia

Samson Mwinga

Affiliation Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems, Management Sciences for Health, Windhoek, Namibia

Michael DeKlerk

Affiliation Directorate of Special Programmes, Republic of Namibia Ministry of Health and Social Services, Windhoek, Namibia

Francina Tjituka

Affiliation Strengthening Pharmaceutical Systems, Management Sciences for Health, Windhoek, Namibia

Scott Penney

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Michael R. Jordan

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Tiruneh Desta

Affiliation World Health Organization Namibia, Klein Windhoek, Namibia

Alice M. Tang

Affiliation Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Steven Y. Hong

shong@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

Affiliations Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AJ VS MRJ TD SYH. Performed the experiments: VS SM MD SP SYH. Analyzed the data: AJ VS FT SP MRJ TD AMT SYH. Wrote the paper: AJ VS SP MRJ AMT SYH.