About the Authors

Fhatuwani Gavhi

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

fhatuwanigavhi@yahoo.com

Affiliations Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Health Systems and Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Lazarus Kuonza

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Health Systems and Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Alfred Musekiwa

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Health Systems and Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Nkengafac Villyen Motaze

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Global Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.