About the Authors

Eunice Baiden Laryea

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

Affiliation Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Department of Applied Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Joseph Asamoah Frimpong

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

asamoah.frimpong@gmail.com

Affiliation Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Department of Applied Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Charles Lwanga Noora

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ CLN, JT, DB and GS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Department of Applied Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

John Tengey

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ CLN, JT, DB and GS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Department of Applied Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Delia Bandoh

Roles Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

‡ CLN, JT, DB and GS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Department of Applied Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

George Sabblah

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

‡ CLN, JT, DB and GS also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pharmacovigilance, Food and Drugs Authority, Accra, Ghana

Donne Ameme

Contributed equally to this work with: Donne Ameme, Ernest Kenu, Kwame Amponsa-Achiano

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Department of Applied Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Ernest Kenu

Contributed equally to this work with: Donne Ameme, Ernest Kenu, Kwame Amponsa-Achiano

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ghana Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Department of Applied Epidemiology and Disease Control, School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Kwame Amponsa-Achiano

Contributed equally to this work with: Donne Ameme, Ernest Kenu, Kwame Amponsa-Achiano

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Expanded Program on Immunization, Ghana Health Service, Accra, Ghana

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.