About the Authors

Phonenaly Chittamany

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National TB Programme, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Takuya Yamanaka

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Takuya.Yamanaka@lshtm.ac.uk

Affiliations Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, School of Tropical Medicine and Global Health, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Sakhone Suthepmany

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National TB Programme, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Thepphouthone Sorsavanh

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National TB Programme, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Phitsada Siphanthong

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National TB Programme, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Jacques Sebert

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National TB Programme, Ministry of Health, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Kerri Viney

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Research School of Population Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, Department of Global Public Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Thipphasone Vixaysouk

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Moeko Nagai

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Vilath Seevisay

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Validation

Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Kiyohiko Izumi

Roles Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, Country Office, Vientiane, Lao PDR

Fukushi Morishita

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, Regional Office for the Western Pacific, Manila, Philippines

Nobuyuki Nishikiori

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Global Tuberculosis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.