About the Authors

Chimwemwe K. Banda

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

cbanda@cartafrica.org

Affiliations School of Global and Public Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi, Public Health Group, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Program, Blantyre, Malawi

Ndaziona P. K. Banda

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

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

Belinda T. Gombachika

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

Affiliation School of Nursing, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

Moffat J. Nyirenda

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

Affiliations School of Global and Public Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi, Uganda MRC/UVRI Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda, NCD-BRITE Consortium, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

Mina C. Hosseinipour

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

Affiliations NCD-BRITE Consortium, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC, United States of America, UNC Project Malawi, Lilongwe, Malawi

Adamson S. Muula

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations School of Global and Public Health, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi, NCD-BRITE Consortium, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi, Africa Center of Excellence in Public Health and Herbal Medicine, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.