About the Authors

Adebola Adedimeji

Contributed equally to this work with: Adebola Adedimeji, Andrew Edmonds, Donald Hoover, Qiuhu Shi, Kathryn Anastos, Marcel Yotebieng

adebola.adedimeji@einstein.yu.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Andrew Edmonds

Contributed equally to this work with: Adebola Adedimeji, Andrew Edmonds, Donald Hoover, Qiuhu Shi, Kathryn Anastos, Marcel Yotebieng

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Donald Hoover

Contributed equally to this work with: Adebola Adedimeji, Andrew Edmonds, Donald Hoover, Qiuhu Shi, Kathryn Anastos, Marcel Yotebieng

Affiliation Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Qiuhu Shi

Contributed equally to this work with: Adebola Adedimeji, Andrew Edmonds, Donald Hoover, Qiuhu Shi, Kathryn Anastos, Marcel Yotebieng

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Community Health, New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York, United States of America

Jean d’Amour Sinayobye

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Division of Research and Clinical Education, The Rwanda Military Hospital, Kanombe, Kigali Rwanda

Martin Nduwimana

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital of Kamenge, Faculty of Medicine, University of Burundi, Bujumbura, Burundi

Patricia Lelo

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Kalembe Lembe Pediatric Hospital, Kinshasa, The Democratic Republic of Congo

Denis Nash

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program at the City University of New York School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Kathryn Anastos

Contributed equally to this work with: Adebola Adedimeji, Andrew Edmonds, Donald Hoover, Qiuhu Shi, Kathryn Anastos, Marcel Yotebieng

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York, United States of America

Marcel Yotebieng

Contributed equally to this work with: Adebola Adedimeji, Andrew Edmonds, Donald Hoover, Qiuhu Shi, Kathryn Anastos, Marcel Yotebieng

Affiliation College of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: AAA AE DH QS KA MY. Data curation: AAA AE DH QS JS MN PL DN KA MY. Formal analysis: AAA AE DH QS KA MY. Funding acquisition: AAA DH QS PL DN KA MY. Investigation: AAA AE DH QS JS MN PL DN KA MY. Methodology: AAA AE DH QS KA MY. Project administration: AAA AE DH QS JS MN PL DN KA MY. Resources: QS DH. Software: AAA AE DH QS KA MY. Supervision: AAA DH QS DN KA MY. Validation: AAA AE DH QS DN KA MY. Visualization: AAA AE DH QS JS MN PL DN KA MY. Writing – original draft: AA DH KA MY. Writing – review & editing: AAA AE DH QS JS MN PL DN KA MY.