About the Authors

Oladele Vincent Adeniyi

Contributed equally to this work with: Oladele Vincent Adeniyi, Anthony Idowu Ajayi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

vincoladele@gmail.com, vincent.adeniyi@echealth.gov.za

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine and Rural Health, Walter Sisulu University, Cecilia Makiwane Hospital/East London Hospital Complex, East London, South Africa

Anthony Idowu Ajayi

Contributed equally to this work with: Oladele Vincent Adeniyi, Anthony Idowu Ajayi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Sociology, University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa

Nonkosi Selanto-Chairman

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Buffalo City Metro Department of Health, East London, South Africa

Daniel Ter Goon

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Fort Hare, East London, South Africa

Gerry Boon

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Walter Sisulu University, Frere Hospital/East London Hospital Complex, East London, South Africa

Yusimi Ordaz Fuentes

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Cecilia Makiwane Hospital/East London Hospital Complex, East London, South Africa

George Justus Hofmeyr

Roles Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Effective Care Research Unit, Walter Sisulu University, Frere hospital/East London Hospital Complex, East London, South Africa

Gordana Avramovic

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation University College of Dublin/Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Catherine McAuley Education & Research Centre, Dublin, Ireland

Craig Carty

Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation The Relevance Network, Johannesburg, South Africa

John Lambert

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation University College Dublin/Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Catherine McAuley Education & Research Centre, Dublin, Ireland

on behalf of the East London Prospective Cohort Study (ELPCS) Group

Membership of the East London Prospective Cohort Study (ELPCS) Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.