About the Authors

Abel Wembabazi

Contributed equally to this work with: Abel Wembabazi, Dianah Rhoda Nassozi, Enid Akot, Timothy Isaac Ochola, Prosper Tom Kweka, Nelson Tom Katamu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation School of Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Dianah Rhoda Nassozi

Contributed equally to this work with: Abel Wembabazi, Dianah Rhoda Nassozi, Enid Akot, Timothy Isaac Ochola, Prosper Tom Kweka, Nelson Tom Katamu

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

Affiliation School of Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Enid Akot

Contributed equally to this work with: Abel Wembabazi, Dianah Rhoda Nassozi, Enid Akot, Timothy Isaac Ochola, Prosper Tom Kweka, Nelson Tom Katamu

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

Affiliation School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Timothy Isaac Ochola

Contributed equally to this work with: Abel Wembabazi, Dianah Rhoda Nassozi, Enid Akot, Timothy Isaac Ochola, Prosper Tom Kweka, Nelson Tom Katamu

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

Affiliation School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Prosper Tom Kweka

Contributed equally to this work with: Abel Wembabazi, Dianah Rhoda Nassozi, Enid Akot, Timothy Isaac Ochola, Prosper Tom Kweka, Nelson Tom Katamu

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

Affiliation School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Nelson Tom Katamu

Contributed equally to this work with: Abel Wembabazi, Dianah Rhoda Nassozi, Enid Akot, Timothy Isaac Ochola, Prosper Tom Kweka, Nelson Tom Katamu

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

Affiliation School of Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

David Meya

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

beatriceachan@yahoo.co.uk (BA); david.meya@gmail.com (DM)

Affiliations Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America

Beatrice Achan

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

beatriceachan@yahoo.co.uk (BA); david.meya@gmail.com (DM)

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Competing Interests

NO authors have competing interests.