About the Authors

Noela Regina Akwi Okalany

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

n.okalany@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

David Mukunya

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

Peter Olupot-Olupot

Roles Resources, Supervision

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

Martin Chebet

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Busitema University, Mbale, Uganda

Francis Okello

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliations Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Department of Community and Public Health, Busitema University, Mbale, Uganda

Andrew D. Weeks

Roles Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Women’s and Children’s Health, Sanyu Research Unit, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Fred Bisso

Roles Investigation, Resources, Visualization

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Mbale Regional Referral Hospital, Mbale, Uganda

Thorkild Tylleskär

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Kathy Burgoine

Contributed equally to this work with: Kathy Burgoine, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Mbale Clinical Research Institute, Mbale, Uganda, Mbale Regional Referral Hospital, Mbale, Uganda

Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen

Contributed equally to this work with: Kathy Burgoine, Ingunn Marie Stadskleiv Engebretsen

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.