About the Authors

James W. M. Kigera

jameskigera@yahoo.co.uk

Affiliations Department of Orthopaedics, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Orthopaedic Rehabilitation Centre, PCEA Kikuyu Hospital, Kikuyu, Kenya

Masja Straetemans

Affiliation Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Simplice K. Vuhaka

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Ingeborg M. Nagel

Affiliation Department of Information and Library Services, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Edward K. Naddumba

Affiliation Department of Orthopaedics, Mulago National Referral Hospital, Kampala, Uganda

Kimberly Boer

Affiliations Department of Biomedical Research, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Academic Medical Centre, Centre for Poverty-Related Communicable Disease AMC-CPCD/AIGHD, Kigali, Rwanda and Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JK MS KB. Performed the experiments: JK SV. Analyzed the data: JK MS KB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JK SV MS IN EN KB. Wrote the paper: JK MS KB.