About the Authors

David Chisompola

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

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Science and Metabolic Diseases, Livingstone Center for Prevention and Translational Science, Livingstone, Zambia, HAND Research Group, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Mulungushi University, Livingstone, Zambia

Emmanuel Luwaya

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Science and Metabolic Diseases, Livingstone Center for Prevention and Translational Science, Livingstone, Zambia, HAND Research Group, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Mulungushi University, Livingstone, Zambia

Martin Chakulya

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Science and Metabolic Diseases, Livingstone Center for Prevention and Translational Science, Livingstone, Zambia, HAND Research Group, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Mulungushi University, Livingstone, Zambia

Joseph M. Chalwe

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Nuclear Medicine Research Infrastructure (NuMeRI), Capital Park, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pretoria and Steve Biko Academic Hospital, Pretoria, South Africa

Joreen P. Povia

Roles Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Economics, Livingstone Center for Prevention and Translational Science, Livingstone, Zambia

Annet Kirabo

Roles Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Center for Immunobiology, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology and Inflammation, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Sepiso K. Masenga

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

sepisomasenga@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Cardiovascular Science and Metabolic Diseases, Livingstone Center for Prevention and Translational Science, Livingstone, Zambia, HAND Research Group, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Mulungushi University, Livingstone, Zambia, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.