About the Authors

Geoffrey A. Anderson

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

Affiliations Department of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lenka Ilcisin

Roles Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Peter Kayima

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

Lenard Abesiga

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

Noralis Portal Benitez

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Surgery, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

Joseph Ngonzi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

Mayanja Ronald

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Mbarara, Uganda

Mark G. Shrime

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Shrime@mail.harvard.edu

Affiliation Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Competing Interests

I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: MGS has received speaking fees from Ethicon Inc. however Ethicon was not involved in any portion of this study. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.