About the Authors

Sian White

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

sian.white@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliation Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Jessica F. Petz

Roles Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Disease Control, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Kifle Desta

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration

Affiliation Independent Consultant, Tigray, Ethiopia

Torben Holm Larsen

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Real Relief ApS, Kolding, Denmark

Competing Interests

We have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: Sian White, Jessica F Petz and Kifle Desta declare no conflicts of interest. Torben Holm Larsen has a patent pending for the SuperTowel. He is also a full time employee of Real Relief, the private company which developed the SuperTowel and which holds the IPR of the product. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.