About the Authors

Hailemariam Segni Abawollo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

‡ HSA, MDA, ZTT and IAB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity, JSI Research & Training Institute Inc., Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mesele Damte Argaw

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

mdamte5@gmail.com

‡ HSA, MDA, ZTT and IAB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity, JSI Research & Training Institute Inc., Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, USAID Surveillance for Malaria Elimination Activity, PATH, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Zergu Taffesse Tsegaye

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ HSA, MDA, ZTT and IAB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity, JSI Research & Training Institute Inc., Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Ismael Ali Beshir

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

‡ HSA, MDA, ZTT and IAB also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity, JSI Research & Training Institute Inc., Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Asfaw Adugna Guteta

Contributed equally to this work with: Asfaw Adugna Guteta, Atrie Fekadu Heyi, Birhan Tenaw Mengesha, Tsega Teferi Mamo, Zenawork Kassa Gebremedhin, Heran Demissie Damte, Mengistu Asnake Kibret

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity, JSI Research & Training Institute Inc., Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Atrie Fekadu Heyi

Contributed equally to this work with: Asfaw Adugna Guteta, Atrie Fekadu Heyi, Birhan Tenaw Mengesha, Tsega Teferi Mamo, Zenawork Kassa Gebremedhin, Heran Demissie Damte, Mengistu Asnake Kibret

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity, JSI Research & Training Institute Inc., Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Birhan Tenaw Mengesha

Contributed equally to this work with: Asfaw Adugna Guteta, Atrie Fekadu Heyi, Birhan Tenaw Mengesha, Tsega Teferi Mamo, Zenawork Kassa Gebremedhin, Heran Demissie Damte, Mengistu Asnake Kibret

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity, JSI Research & Training Institute Inc., Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Tsega Teferi Mamo

Contributed equally to this work with: Asfaw Adugna Guteta, Atrie Fekadu Heyi, Birhan Tenaw Mengesha, Tsega Teferi Mamo, Zenawork Kassa Gebremedhin, Heran Demissie Damte, Mengistu Asnake Kibret

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity, JSI Research & Training Institute Inc., Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Zenawork Kassa Gebremedhin

Contributed equally to this work with: Asfaw Adugna Guteta, Atrie Fekadu Heyi, Birhan Tenaw Mengesha, Tsega Teferi Mamo, Zenawork Kassa Gebremedhin, Heran Demissie Damte, Mengistu Asnake Kibret

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity, JSI Research & Training Institute Inc., Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Heran Demissie Damte

Contributed equally to this work with: Asfaw Adugna Guteta, Atrie Fekadu Heyi, Birhan Tenaw Mengesha, Tsega Teferi Mamo, Zenawork Kassa Gebremedhin, Heran Demissie Damte, Mengistu Asnake Kibret

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity, JSI Research & Training Institute Inc., Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Mengistu Asnake Kibret

Contributed equally to this work with: Asfaw Adugna Guteta, Atrie Fekadu Heyi, Birhan Tenaw Mengesha, Tsega Teferi Mamo, Zenawork Kassa Gebremedhin, Heran Demissie Damte, Mengistu Asnake Kibret

Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity, Pathfinder International, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Binyam Fekadu Desta

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation USAID Transform: Primary Health Care Activity, JSI Research & Training Institute Inc., Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.