About the Authors

Marythereza Orotta

Contributed equally to this work with: Marythereza Orotta, Patricia Munseri

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

maryorotta@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Department of Internal Medicine, Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Patricia Munseri

Contributed equally to this work with: Marythereza Orotta, Patricia Munseri

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

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Regan Valerian Massawe

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Godfrey Michael Orotta

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Ashabilan Ebrahim

Roles Methodology, Software, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Eka Patricia Kisali

Roles Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Physiology, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Stanley Kajaja

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Brendan Shayo

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Amunga Meda

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

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.