About the Authors

Njambi Njuguna

Contributed equally to this work with: Njambi Njuguna, Nelly Mugo, Omu Anzala, Jared M. Baeten, Renee Heffron

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

njambs25@students.uonbi.ac.ke

Affiliations Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, FHI 360, Nairobi, Kenya

Nelly Mugo

Contributed equally to this work with: Njambi Njuguna, Nelly Mugo, Omu Anzala, Jared M. Baeten, Renee Heffron

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, Partners in Health and Research Development, Thika, Kenya, Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Omu Anzala

Contributed equally to this work with: Njambi Njuguna, Nelly Mugo, Omu Anzala, Jared M. Baeten, Renee Heffron

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

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Marianne Mureithi

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

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Elizabeth Irungu

Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliations Kenya Medical Research Institute, Nairobi, Kenya, Partners in Health and Research Development, Thika, Kenya, Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Joyce Wamicwe

Roles Data curation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Nairobi, Kenya

Jared M. Baeten

Contributed equally to this work with: Njambi Njuguna, Nelly Mugo, Omu Anzala, Jared M. Baeten, Renee Heffron

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA, United States of America

Renee Heffron

Contributed equally to this work with: Njambi Njuguna, Nelly Mugo, Omu Anzala, Jared M. Baeten, Renee Heffron

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Departments of Epidemiology and Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.