About the Authors

Monica Fredrick Francis

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

francismonica6@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Bio-Engineering, Nelson Mandela - African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

Sr. John-Mary Vianney

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

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Bio-Engineering, Nelson Mandela - African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania

Kathrin Heitz-Tokpa

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre Suisse de Recherches Scientifiques en Côte d’Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire

Katharina Kreppel

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

Affiliations Department of Global Health and Biomedical Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Bio-Engineering, Nelson Mandela - African Institution of Science and Technology, Arusha, Tanzania, Department of Public Health, Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors declare no competing interests exist.