About the Authors

Akhenaten Benjamin Siankam Tankwanchi

akhenaton.tankwanchi@gmail.com

Current address: Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America

Affiliation Program in Community Research and Action, Department of Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Sten H. Vermund

Affiliation Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health and Department of Pediatrics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Douglas D. Perkins

Affiliation Program in Community Research and Action, Department of Human and Organizational Development, Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Competing Interests

SHV is a section/academic editor for PLOS ONE, and a co-principal investigator of the University of Zambia Medical Education Partnership Initiative funded by the National Institutes of Health and The United States' President Emergency Plan for Aids Relief. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: ABST. Analyzed the data: ABST. Wrote the paper: ABST SHV DDP.