About the Authors

Evans Chimayi Chirambo

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

ecchirambo@mlw.mw

Affiliations Department of Health Programmes, Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM), Lilongwe, Malawi, Malaria Department, Malawi-Liverpool Wellcome Programme (MLW), Blantyre, Malawi, School of Life Sciences and Allied Health Professions, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHES), Blantyre, Malawi

Francis Kachidza Chiumia

Contributed equally to this work with: Francis Kachidza Chiumia, Dumisani Nkhoma, Collins Mitambo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Allied Health Professions, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHES), Blantyre, Malawi

Dumisani Nkhoma

Contributed equally to this work with: Francis Kachidza Chiumia, Dumisani Nkhoma, Collins Mitambo

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

Affiliation Department of Health Programmes, Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM), Lilongwe, Malawi

Collins Mitambo

Contributed equally to this work with: Francis Kachidza Chiumia, Dumisani Nkhoma, Collins Mitambo

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health Institute of Malawi, Ministry of Health-Antimicrobial Resistance National Coordinating Centre (MOH-AMR-NCC), Lilongwe, Malawi

Sharon Odeo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ SO, PK, IC, SM, and EM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Health Programmes, Ecumenical Pharmaceutical Network (EPN), Kilimani, Nairobi, Kenya

Patience Khomani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

‡ SO, PK, IC, SM, and EM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Pharmacy, Ekwendeni College of Health Sciences (ECOHS), Mzuzu, Mzimba, Malawi

Innocent Chibwe

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Resources

‡ SO, PK, IC, SM, and EM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Public Health Institute of Malawi, Ministry of Health-Antimicrobial Resistance National Coordinating Centre (MOH-AMR-NCC), Lilongwe, Malawi

Simon Matchado

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Validation, Visualization

‡ SO, PK, IC, SM, and EM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of IT, Pharmacy and Medicines Regulatory Authority (PMRA), Lilongwe, Malawi

Pacharo Matchere

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Programmes, Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM), Lilongwe, Malawi

Beatrice Chiweza

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Department of Health Programmes, Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM), Lilongwe, Malawi

Elled Mwenyekonde

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

‡ SO, PK, IC, SM, and EM also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Health Programmes, Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM), Lilongwe, Malawi

Elizabeth Kampira

Roles Supervision

Affiliation School of Life Sciences and Allied Health Professions, Kamuzu University of Health Sciences (KUHES), Blantyre, Malawi

Happy Makala

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Department of Health Programmes, Christian Health Association of Malawi (CHAM), Lilongwe, Malawi

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.