About the Authors

Gift Treighcy Banda-Mtaula

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

Treighcy.banda@lstmed.ac.uk

Affiliations Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Ibrahim Simiyu

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Sangwani Nkhana Salimu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Stephen A. Spencer

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Nateiya M. Yongolo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Center, Moshi, Tanzania, KCMC University, Moshi, Tanzania

Marlen Chawani

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Policy Unit, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

Hendry Sawe

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

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

Jamie Rylance

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Ben Morton

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Adamson S. Muula

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kamuzu University of Health Sciences, Blantyre, Malawi

Eve Worall

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Felix Limbani

Contributed equally to this work with: Felix Limbani, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Rhona Mijumbi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

Miriam Taegtmeyer

Contributed equally to this work with: Felix Limbani, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Rhona Mijumbi

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

Rhona Mijumbi

Contributed equally to this work with: Felix Limbani, Miriam Taegtmeyer, Rhona Mijumbi

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

Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Policy Unit, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

on behalf of the Multilink consortium

Membership of the Multilink Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgements.

Competing Interests

The authors have no competing interests.