About the Authors

Consiliate Apolot

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

consiliate511@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Community and Public Health, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbale, Uganda

Samuel Baker Obakiro

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbale, Uganda, Natural Products Research and Innovation Centre, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbale, Uganda

David Mukunya

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community and Public Health, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbale, Uganda

Peter Olupot-Olupot

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Community and Public Health, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbale, Uganda, Mbale Clinical Research Institute, Mbale, Uganda

Joseph K. B. Matovu

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

Affiliations Department of Community and Public Health, Busitema University Faculty of Health Sciences, Mbale, Uganda, Department of Disease Control and Environmental Health, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.