Hand hygiene intervention to optimize helminth infection control: Design and baseline results of Mikono Safi–An ongoing school-based cluster-randomised controlled trial in NW Tanzania

• Kenneth Makata,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, Mwanza, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5209-2347

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• Safari Kinung’hi,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania

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• Christian Hansen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Philip Ayieko,

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

  Affiliations Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, Mwanza, Tanzania, MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Simon Sichalwe,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, Mwanza, Tanzania

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• Onike Mcharo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, Mwanza, Tanzania

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• Jeroen Ensink †,

  † Deceased.

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Visualization, Writing – original draft

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

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• Robert Dreibelbis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Sarah Rockowitz,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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• Elialilia Okello,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, Mwanza, Tanzania

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• Heiner Grosskurth,

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

  Affiliations Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, Mwanza, Tanzania, National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania, MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Saidi Kapiga

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

  * E-mail: saidi.kapiga@lshtm.ac.uk

  Affiliations Mwanza Intervention Trials Unit, Mwanza, Tanzania, National Institute for Medical Research, Mwanza, Tanzania, MRC Tropical Epidemiology Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1753-4060

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