About the Authors

Esther-Dorice Tesha

Contributed equally to this work with: Esther-Dorice Tesha, Elia Mmbaga

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

drespick@yahoo.com

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Tanzania Field of Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Rogath Kishimba

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Tanzania Field of Epidemiology and Laboratory Training Program, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Prosper Njau

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National AIDS Control Program, Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly, and Children, Dodoma, Tanzania

Baraka Revocutus

Roles Formal analysis

‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation National AIDS Control Program, Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly, and Children, Dodoma, Tanzania

Elia Mmbaga

Contributed equally to this work with: Esther-Dorice Tesha, Elia Mmbaga

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Department of Community Medicine and Global Health, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Competing Interests

The authors have declared no competing interest or personal relationship that could have appeared to influence the reported work.