About the Authors

Erick Mboya

Contributed equally to this work with: Erick Mboya, Mucho Mizinduko

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

alexandererick104@gmail.com

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Mucho Mizinduko

Contributed equally to this work with: Erick Mboya, Mucho Mizinduko

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

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Belinda Balandya

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Jeremiah Mushi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Dodoma, Tanzania

Amon Sabasaba

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Davis Elias Amani

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

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Doreen Kamori

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

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

George Ruhago

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Prosper Faustine

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Dodoma, Tanzania

Werner Maokola

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Dodoma, Tanzania

Veryeh Sambu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Dodoma, Tanzania

Mukome Nyamuhagata

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Dodoma, Tanzania

Boniphace S. Jullu

† Deceased.

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration

Affiliation St. Francis University College of Health and Allied Sciences, Morogoro, Tanzania

Amir Juya

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Tanzania Field Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Joan Rugemalila

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

George Mgomella

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Diseases Control, Country Office, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Sarah Asiimwe

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Fund, Tanzania Country Team, Tanzania

Andrea B. Pembe

Roles Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Bruno Sunguya

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

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.