About the Authors

Said Nyumayo

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

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

Eveline Konje

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

Benson Kidenya

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Weill-Bugando School of Medicine, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

Anthony Kapesa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

Marko Hingi

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

Nyagwegwe Wango

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

Joshua Ngimbwa

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

Violeth Alphonce

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

Namanya Basinda

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

drbasinda@yahoo.co.uk

Affiliation Department of Community Medicine, School of Public Health, Catholic University of Health and Allied Sciences, Mwanza, Tanzania

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist