About the Authors

Ramya Ananthakrishnan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ramya Ananthakrishnan, Rajeswaran Thiagesan, Jacob Creswell

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

ramyardr.reach@gmail.com

Affiliation REACH – Resource Group for Education and Advocacy for Community Health, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Rajeswaran Thiagesan

Contributed equally to this work with: Ramya Ananthakrishnan, Rajeswaran Thiagesan, Jacob Creswell

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation REACH – Resource Group for Education and Advocacy for Community Health, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Sheela Auguesteen

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision

‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

Affiliation REACH – Resource Group for Education and Advocacy for Community Health, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Nalini Karunakaran

Roles Data curation, Supervision, Validation

‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

Affiliation REACH – Resource Group for Education and Advocacy for Community Health, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Lavanya Jayabal

Roles Investigation, Resources, Supervision

‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

Affiliation GCC RNTCP – Greater Chennai Corporation Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Jagadeesan M

Roles Investigation, Resources

‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

Affiliation GCC RNTCP – Greater Chennai Corporation Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

Robert Stevens

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

Affiliation Independent Consultant, Manchester, United Kingdom

Andrew Codlin

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors also contributed equally to the work.

Affiliation Stop TB Partnership, TB REACH, Geneva, Switzerland

Jacob Creswell

Contributed equally to this work with: Ramya Ananthakrishnan, Rajeswaran Thiagesan, Jacob Creswell

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Stop TB Partnership, TB REACH, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.