About the Authors

Grace Frank Mhando

Contributed equally to this work with: Grace Frank Mhando, Kelvin Melkizedeck Leshabari

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

Affiliations Dept of Paediatrics/Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Hubert Kairuki Memorial University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Dept of Paediatrics & Child Health, Amana Regional Referral Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, NEOnatal Network (NEON-r) research group, Registered Trustees of Ultimate Family Healthcare, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Salvatory Florence Kalabamu

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

Affiliation Dept of Paediatrics/Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Hubert Kairuki Memorial University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Maulidi Rashidi Fataki

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

Affiliation Dept of Paediatrics/Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Hubert Kairuki Memorial University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Christina Clinton Galabawa

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Dept of Paediatrics/Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, Hubert Kairuki Memorial University, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, NEOnatal Network (NEON-r) research group, Registered Trustees of Ultimate Family Healthcare, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Port Health Centre, Tanzania Ports Authority, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Kelvin Melkizedeck Leshabari

Contributed equally to this work with: Grace Frank Mhando, Kelvin Melkizedeck Leshabari

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

celsius_lx@yahoo.co.uk, kelvin.leshabari@ufht.or.tz

Affiliations NEOnatal Network (NEON-r) research group, Registered Trustees of Ultimate Family Healthcare, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Ageing Initiative in sub-Saharan Africa (AISA) research group, Registered Trustees of Ultimate Family Healthcare, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, H3 Clinical Research Unit, I-Katch Technology Ltd, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.