About the Authors

Till Bärnighausen

tbarnighausen@africacentre.ac.za

Affiliation Africa Centre for Health & Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Claudia Wallrauch

Affiliation Africa Centre for Health & Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Alex Welte

Affiliations School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, DST/NRF Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Thomas A. McWalter

Affiliation School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Nhlanhla Mbizana

Affiliation Africa Centre for Health & Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Johannes Viljoen

Affiliation Africa Centre for Health & Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Natalie Graham

Affiliation Africa Centre for Health & Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Frank Tanser

Affiliation Africa Centre for Health & Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Adrian Puren

Affiliation National Institute of Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa

Marie-Louise Newell

Affiliations Africa Centre for Health & Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Child Health, University College of London, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TB AP MLN. Performed the experiments: JV NG AP. Analyzed the data: TB AW TAM FT MLN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CW AW TAM NM JV NG FT AP. Wrote the paper: TB. Organized data collection: CW. Contributed to data collection: NM.