About the Authors

Geofrey Nimrod Sigalla

gnimrody@yahoo.com

Affiliations Institute of Public Health, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi, Tanzania, Department of Health, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, Arusha, Tanzania

Declare Mushi

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi, Tanzania

Dan Wolf Meyrowitsch

Affiliation Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Rachel Manongi

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi, Tanzania

Jane Januarius Rogathi

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Kilimanjaro Christian Medical University College, Moshi, Tanzania

Tine Gammeltoft

Affiliation Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Vibeke Rasch

Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Odense University Hospital, Odense, Denmark, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: GNS DM DWM RM JJR TG VR. Formal analysis: GNS VR. Funding acquisition: DM DWM RM TG VR. Investigation: GNS JJR. Methodology: GNS DM DWM RM JJR TG VR. Project administration: GNS DM DWM RM JJR TG VR. Resources: GNS DM DWM RM JJR TG VR. Supervision: DWM TG VR. Validation: GNS DM DWM RM JJR TG VR. Visualization: GNS DWM VR. Writing – original draft: GNS VR. Writing – review & editing: GNS DM DWM TG VR.