About the Authors

Sayera Banu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

sbanu@icddrb.org

Affiliation icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Farhana Haque

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

Current address: Institute for Global Health (IGH), University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom

Affiliation icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Shahriar Ahmed

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Sonia Sultana

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

Affiliation icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Mahfuzur Rahman

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Razia Khatun

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Kishor Kumar Paul

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

Current address: The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales, Australia

Affiliation icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Senjuti Kabir

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh

S. M. Mazidur Rahman

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Rupali Sisir Banu

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP), Ministry of Health and Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Md. Shamiul Islam

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP), Ministry of Health and Welfare, Dhaka, Bangladesh

Allen G. Ross

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh

John D. Clemens

Roles Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh

Robert Stevens

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

Affiliation Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland

Jacob Creswell

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

Jacob Creswell is an employee and received support from Stop TB Partnership in terms of salary during the project period. He was responsible for funding the interventions and their initial design, and contributed in the manuscript as senior author. Robert Stevens is an independent monitoring and evaluation expert employed by STOP TB Partnership. Md. Shamiul Islam and Rupali Sisir Banu are National Tuberculosis Control Program (NTP) staff. Besides the mentioned, all other listed co-authors either were/are staff of icddr,b working in the project and received salaries from the project fund, or working in other projects and received salaries from their respective project funds. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. None of the other authors have competing interests to declare.