About the Authors

Angela Oyo-Ita

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

oyo_ita@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, Effective Health Care Alliance Programme, Institute of Tropical Disease, Research and Prevention, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria

Xavier Bosch-Capblanch

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Amanda Ross

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Afiong Oku

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria

Ekpereonne Esu

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Effective Health Care Alliance Programme, Institute of Tropical Disease, Research and Prevention, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, Department of Public Health, Faculty of Allied Medicine, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria

Soter Ameh

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

Affiliations Department of Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, Department of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Olabisi Oduwole

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Effective Health Care Alliance Programme, Institute of Tropical Disease, Research and Prevention, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Achievers University, Owo, Ondo State, Nigeria

Dachi Arikpo

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Effective Health Care Alliance Programme, Institute of Tropical Disease, Research and Prevention, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria

Martin Meremikwu

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

Affiliations Effective Health Care Alliance Programme, Institute of Tropical Disease, Research and Prevention, University of Calabar Teaching Hospital, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, College of Medical Sciences, University of Calabar, Calabar, Cross River State, Nigeria

Competing Interests

The Authors have declared that no competing interests exist.