About the Authors

Nicholus Mutenda

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

Alexandra Bukowski

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

Anne-Marie Nitschke

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

Tuli Nakanyala

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

Ndapewa Hamunime

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

Tadesse Mekonen

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

Francina Tjituka

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

Greatjoy Mazibuko

Affiliation Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS), Management Sciences for Health, Windhoek, Namibia

Samson Mwinga

Affiliation Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS), Management Sciences for Health, Windhoek, Namibia

David Mabirizi

Affiliation Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS), Management Sciences for Health, Windhoek, Namibia

Evans Sagwa

Affiliation Systems for Improved Access to Pharmaceuticals and Services (SIAPS), Management Sciences for Health, Windhoek, Namibia

Rosalia Indongo

Affiliation United States Agency for International Development, Windhoek, Namibia

Natalie Dean

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, 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

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

Conceptualization: NM MRJ SYH. Data curation: TN GM SM. Formal analysis: NM AB SM ND SYH. Funding acquisition: NM SYH. Investigation: NM AB GM SM ND MRJ SYH. Methodology: NM MRJ SYH. Project administration: NM TN FT GM ES SYH. Resources: NM AN TN NH FT GM SM ES. Software: AB GM SM. Supervision: NM AN DM ES RI SYH. Validation: AB GM SM SYH. Visualization: AB. Writing – original draft: NM AB SYH. Writing – review & editing: NM AB AN TN NH TM FT GM SM DM ES RI ND MRJ SYH.