About the Authors

John Ndegwa Wagai

Contributed equally to this work with: John Ndegwa Wagai, Dale Rhoda, Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Felicity Cutts

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

johnwagai@gmail.com

Affiliation Independent Consultant, Nairobi, Kenya

Dale Rhoda

Contributed equally to this work with: John Ndegwa Wagai, Dale Rhoda, Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Felicity Cutts

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biostat Global Consulting, Worthington, OH, United States of America

Mary Prier

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Biostat Global Consulting, Worthington, OH, United States of America

Mary Kay Trimmer

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Biostat Global Consulting, Worthington, OH, United States of America

Caitlin B. Clary

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

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Biostat Global Consulting, Worthington, OH, United States of America

Joseph Oteri

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria

Bassey Okposen

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Primary Health Care Development Agency, Abuja, Nigeria

Adeyemi Adeniran

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

Affiliation National Bureau of Statistics, Abuja, Nigeria

Carolina Danovaro-Holliday

Contributed equally to this work with: John Ndegwa Wagai, Dale Rhoda, Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Felicity Cutts

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Felicity Cutts

Contributed equally to this work with: John Ndegwa Wagai, Dale Rhoda, Carolina Danovaro-Holliday, Felicity Cutts

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

DAR and MLP and MKT are employed by Biostat Global Consulting a commercial firm and received funds from BMGF Investment ID 29065. FTC received consultancy fees from BMGF. CBC is funded on BMGF Investment ID 53009. MCDH is a WHO staff member. JNW was funded as the primary WHO consultant on the MICS/NICS and on the PMCCS. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the funding agencies. M. Carolina Danovaro[-Holliday] works for the World Health Organization. The author alone is responsible for the views expressed in this publication and they do not necessarily represent the decisions, policy or views of the World Health Organization, Biostat Global Consulting or BMGF. The funders did not play any role in the collection, analysis, interpretation, writing of final reports, or decision to submit this Cover Letter research. The commercial affiliation of some of the authors does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.