About the Authors

Gift G. Lukumay

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Lucy R. Mgopa

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Stella E. Mushy

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

B. R. Simon Rosser

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

rosser@umn.edu

Affiliation University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Agnes F. Massae

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Ever Mkonyi

Roles Investigation

Affiliation University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Inari Mohammed

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Dorkasi L. Mwakawanga

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Maria Trent

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, Washington, DC, United States of America

James Wadley

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Adult and Continuing Education, Lincoln University, Baltimore Pike, PA, United States of America

Michael W. Ross

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Zobeida Bonilla

Roles Methodology

Affiliation University of Minnesota, School of Public Health, Minneapolis, MN, United States of America

Sebalda Leshabari

† Deceased.

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal’s policy and have the following competing interests to declare: MT received research supplies from SpeeDx LLC (https://plexpcr.com/) through a material transfer agreement with Johns Hopkins University, and serves as a consultant to the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Church and Dwight, Inc for the Trojan Sexual Health Advisory Council for unrelated work. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare. The other authors declare no competing interests.