About the Authors

Bwambale Jonani

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

* jonani.bwambale@sebbihospital.co.ug,(BJ)

Affiliation Laboratory department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso district, Uganda

Emmanuel Charles Kasule

Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Charles Kasule, Herman Roman Bwire, Otema Ricky, Joel Fredrick Arturo

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

Affiliation Laboratory department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso district, Uganda

Herman Roman Bwire

Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Charles Kasule, Herman Roman Bwire, Otema Ricky, Joel Fredrick Arturo

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

Affiliation Laboratory department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso district, Uganda

Otema Ricky

Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Charles Kasule, Herman Roman Bwire, Otema Ricky, Joel Fredrick Arturo

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

Affiliation Laboratory department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso district, Uganda

Joel Fredrick Arturo

Contributed equally to this work with: Emmanuel Charles Kasule, Herman Roman Bwire, Otema Ricky, Joel Fredrick Arturo

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

Affiliation Laboratory department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso district, Uganda

Matsiko Livingstone

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization

Affiliation National STI Control Unit Mulago Hospital, STI/Skin Clinic - Old Mulago Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

Nassinde Esther

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso district, Uganda

Namirembe Esther

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Insurance and Client care department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso district, Uganda

Namale Joanitah

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Nursing, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso district, Uganda

Lillian Nabbanja Naava

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Obstetrics and Gynecology department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso district, Uganda

Ssebulime Stephen

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

& These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Obstetrics and Gynecology department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso district, Uganda

John Bosco Mundaka

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

& These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Obstetrics and Gynecology department, Sebbi Hospital, Wakiso district, Uganda

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.