About the Authors

Habteyes Hailu Tola

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

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

Kourosh Holakouie-Naieni

Roles Writing – review & editing

holakoik@hotmail.com

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

Tadesse Lejisa

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

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

Mohammad Ali Mansournia

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

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

Mehdi Yaseri

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

Ephrem Tesfaye

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Million Mola

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation St. Peter's Specialized Hospital, Research and Evidence Generation Directorate, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.