About the Authors

Habteyes Hailu Tola

habtetola@gmail.com (HHT); shojae5@yahoo.com (DS)

Affiliations Tehran University of Medical Sciences-International Campus, School of Public Health, Department of Health Education and Promotion, Tehran, Iran, Ethiopian Public Health Institute, TB/HIV Research Directorate, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Davoud Shojaeizadeh

habtetola@gmail.com (HHT); shojae5@yahoo.com (DS)

Affiliation Tehran University of Medical Sciences-International Campus, School of Public Health, Department of Health Education and Promotion, Tehran, Iran

Azar Tol

Affiliation Tehran University of Medical Sciences-International Campus, School of Public Health, Department of Health Education and Promotion, Tehran, Iran

Gholamreza Garmaroudi

Affiliation Tehran University of Medical Sciences-International Campus, School of Public Health, Department of Health Education and Promotion, Tehran, Iran

Mir Saeed Yekaninejad

Affiliation Tehran University of Medical Sciences International Campus, School of Public Health, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Tehran, Iran

Abebaw Kebede

Affiliation Ethiopian Public Health Institute, TB/HIV Research Directorate, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Luche Tadesse Ejeta

Affiliation Tehran University of Medical Sciences-International Campus, School of Public Health, Department of Health Education and Promotion, Tehran, Iran

Desta Kassa

Affiliation Ethiopian Public Health Institute, TB/HIV Research Directorate, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Eveline Klinkenberg

Affiliations KNCV Tuberculosis Foundation, The Hague, The Netherlands, Department of Global Health, Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: HHT. Performed the experiments: HHT AK DK. Analyzed the data: HHT MSY GG. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: HHT DS AT AK DK. Wrote the paper: HHT. Interpreted and reviewed the manuscript: DS AT LTE DK AK GG. Critically reviewed the manuscript: EK LTE. Interpreted the result: HHT MSY GG.