About the Authors

Joseph Musaazi

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

musaazijoseph7@gmail.com

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Christine Sekaggya-Wiltshire

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Stephen Okoboi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Stella Zawedde-Muyanja

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Mbazi Senkoro

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research, Muhimbili Centre, Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania

Nelson Kalema

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Paul Kavuma

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Proscovia M. Namuwenge

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Program, Uganda Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda

Yukari C. Manabe

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Barbara Castelnuovo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Agnes Kiragga

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Institute, Makerere University College of Health Sciences, Kampala, Uganda

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.