About the Authors

Nathan Mubiru

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

Nathan.Mubiru@mrcuganda.org (NM); wnakanga@ed.ac.uk (WPN)

Affiliations Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Medical Research Council/ Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda, Non-communicable diseases Theme, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

Rogers Mukasa

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Medical Research Council/ Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda, Non-communicable diseases Theme, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

Isaac Sekitoleko

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Non-communicable diseases Theme, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

Priscilla A. Balungi

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Medical Research Council/ Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda, Non-communicable diseases Theme, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

Ronald M. Kakumba

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Non-communicable diseases Theme, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

Terry Ongaria

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Non-communicable diseases Theme, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

Hubert Nkabura

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Non-communicable diseases Theme, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

Moffat Nyirenda

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Non-communicable diseases Theme, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

Anxious J. Niwaha

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Non-communicable diseases Theme, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom

Wisdom P. Nakanga

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

Nathan.Mubiru@mrcuganda.org (NM); wnakanga@ed.ac.uk (WPN)

Affiliations Non-communicable diseases Theme, Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and LSHTM Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda, Institute of Biomedical and Clinical Science, College of Medicine and Health, University of Exeter Medical School, Exeter, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have no conflict of interest to declare.