About the Authors

Mohammed Gouda ElMedrek

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

elmedrekm@who.int, Mohamed.gouda.elmedrek@gmail.com

Affiliation World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo, Egypt

Joumana Hermez

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

Affiliation World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo, Egypt

Yvan Hutin

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

Affiliation World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo, Egypt

Abdinasir Abubakar

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation WHO, Country Office for Lebanon, Beirut, Lebanon

Ghada Muhjazi

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo, Egypt

Emmanuel Olatunji

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Global Fund, Africa and Middle East (AME) Department, Grant Management Division, Geneva, Switzerland

Muhammad Shahid Jamil

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo, Egypt

Ahmed Sabry Alaama

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization (WHO), Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region, Cairo, Egypt

Nevin Wilson

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International Organization for Migration, Amman, Jordan

Firass Abiad

Roles Resources, Supervision

Affiliation Ministry of Public Health, Beirut, Lebanon

Hiam Yaacoub

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Ministry of Public Health, Beirut, Lebanon

Mostafa El Nakib

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National AIDS Programme Manager, NAP, Beirut, Lebanon

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist