About the Authors

Clara Bermudez-Tamayo

clara.bermudez.easp@juntadeandalucia.es

Affiliations Andalusian School of Public Health, Granada, Spain, CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Publica (CIBERESP), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Stéphane Besançon

Affiliation NGO Santé Diabète, Bamako, Mali

Mira Johri

Affiliations Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, Canada, Département d'administration de la santé, École de santé publique, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Sidibe Assa

Affiliation Endocrinology Department, Mali National Hospital, Bamako, Mali

Jonathan Betz Brown

Affiliation Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research, Portland, Oregon, United States of America

Kaushik Ramaiya

Affiliation Shree Hindu Mandal Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The research on which this paper is based was organized and funded by International Diabetes Federation (IDF) as part of a program to measure the impact of diabetes in low- and middle-income countries. To fund this program, IDF solicited and combined unrestricted research grants from several commercial pharmaceutical organizations into an Economic Studies Fund. The contributors to this fund were Merck and Co., Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly and Co., Takeda Pharmaceuticals North America, and GSK, Inc. These contributors did not select the African countries to be studied and had no role in the design, conduct and reporting of the study in any country, including Mali. The manuscript is an honest, accurate, and transparent account of the study being reported, and no important aspects of the study have been omitted. The use of this commercial funding does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. All funders of IDF’s Economic Studies Fund and all participants in the Fund’s projects agreed in writing that study data would be shared publicly. Finally, it was clearly agreed in writing with the sponsors from the start that our studies were independent, that the resulting data would become public, and that scientific decisions would be made without company involvement.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SB JBB KR SA. Data curation: CB SB. Formal analysis: CB. Funding acquisition: JBB. Methodology: CB MJ SB. Project administration: SB. Resources: JBB. Supervision: SB. Writing – original draft: CB. Writing – review & editing: SB JBB KR MJ SA.