About the Authors

Ivan James Prithishkumar

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

Affiliation Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai, UAE

Marimuthu Sappani

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

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Varsha Ranjan

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

Affiliation Independent Public Health Consultant, New Delhi, India

Chhavi Garg

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Science, Global Health: Research, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Thenmozhi Mani

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

Affiliation Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India

Malavika Babu

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

Affiliations Department of Biostatistics, Christian Medical College, Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India, Centre for Trials Research, College of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Melvin Joy

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biostatistician, Translational and Clinical Research Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

Bhawna Rao

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

Affiliation National AIDS Control Organization (NACO), New Delhi, India

Edwin Sam Asirvatham

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

Affiliation Health Systems Research India Initiative (HSRII), Trivandrum, Kerala, India

Jeyaseelan Lakshmanan

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

Jeyaseelan.lakshmanan@mbru.ac.ae

Affiliation Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai, UAE

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.