About the Authors

Abraham Degarege

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

abraham.mengist@unmc.edu

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, United States of America

Karl Krupp

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Public Health Research Institute of India, Mysore, Karnataka, India

Vijaya Srinivas

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Public Health Research Institute of India, Mysore, Karnataka, India

Boubakari Ibrahimou

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Robert Stempel College of Public Health, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, United States of America

Purnima Madhivanan

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

Affiliations Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Public Health Research Institute of India, Mysore, Karnataka, India, Division of Infectious Diseases, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America, Department of Family & Community Medicine, College of Medicine, The University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Competing Interests

This study was awarded from Merck & Co., Inc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.