About the Authors

Maiya G. Block Ngaybe

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

mgblock@arizona.edu

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona‌‌, United States of America

Kawoya K. Joseph

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Makerere University Walter Reed Program, Kampala, Uganda

Wadana Hamzazai

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona‌‌, United States of America

Carly J. Deal

Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona‌‌, United States of America

Stephen Mugamba

Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Makerere University Walter Reed Program, Kampala, Uganda

Wambi M. Stephen

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

Affiliation Makerere University Walter Reed Program, Kampala, Uganda

Richard Muhumuza

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe‌‌, Uganda

Betty Nakaggwa

Roles Investigation

Affiliation Makerere University Walter Reed Program, Kampala, Uganda

Auwal Abubakar

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona‌‌, United States of America

Gabriela Valdez

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona‌‌, United States of America

Maia Ingram

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona‌‌, United States of America

John Ehiri

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona‌‌, United States of America

Grace Mirembe

Roles Project administration, Supervision

Affiliation Makerere University Walter Reed Program, Kampala, Uganda

Betty Mwesigwa

Roles Supervision

Affiliation Makerere University Walter Reed Program, Kampala, Uganda

Hannah Kibuuka

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Makerere University Walter Reed Program, Kampala, Uganda

Purnima Madhivanan

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Health Promotion Sciences, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona‌‌, United States of America, Public Health Research Institute of India, Mysore, Karnataka, India

Competing Interests

Authors SM and HK work for the Makerere University Walter Reed Program who actively is con-ducting an HIV vaccine trial. PM was Program Director for the Global Health Equity Scholars Program at the time of this project. The authors declare no other conflicts of interest. The funders had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript; or in the decision to publish the results.