Pathways of health care for people living with multimorbidity in two Southern African countries

• Gift Treighcy Banda-Mtaula ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gift Treighcy Banda-Mtaula, Mtisunge Joshua Gondwe

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

  * E-mail: treighcy.banda@lstmed.ac.uk

  Affiliations Lung Health Group, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7465-0730

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• Mtisunge Joshua Gondwe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gift Treighcy Banda-Mtaula, Mtisunge Joshua Gondwe

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

  Affiliation Maternal and Fetal Health Group, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi

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• Nateiya M. Yongolo,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom, Kilimanjaro Clinical Research Institute, Moshi, Tanzania, KCMC University, Moshi, Tanzania

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9659-7926

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• Rashida A. Ferrand,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Clinical Research, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom, The Health Research Unit of Zimbabwe (THRU ZIM), The Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Harare, Zimbabwe

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7660-9176

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• Stephen Kasenda,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Malawi Epidemiology Intervention Unit (MEIRU), Karonga, Malawi

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9208-4122

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• Sara Lowe,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Newlands Clinic, Harare, Zimbabwe

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• Brown David Khongo,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Partners in Health, Neno, Malawi

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• Naomi S. Levitt,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Chronic Disease Initiative for Africa, Department of Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6480-8066

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• Beatrice Matanje,

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

  Affiliations Partners in Health, Neno, Malawi, National AIDS Commission, Lilongwe, Malawi

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• Charlotte Taderera,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Newlands Clinic, Harare, Zimbabwe

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• Justin Dixon ,

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

  ¶‡ JD, CLG, and FL also contributed equally to this work as senior authors.

  Affiliations The Health Research Unit of Zimbabwe (THRU ZIM), The Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Harare, Zimbabwe, Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

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• Celia L. Gregson ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ JD, CLG, and FL also contributed equally to this work as senior authors.

  Affiliations The Health Research Unit of Zimbabwe (THRU ZIM), The Biomedical Research and Training Institute, Harare, Zimbabwe, Global Health and Ageing Research Unit, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6414-0529

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• Felix Limbani

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

  ¶‡ JD, CLG, and FL also contributed equally to this work as senior authors.

  Affiliations Lung Health Group, Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Clinical Research Programme, Blantyre, Malawi, Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom

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