About the Authors

Victoria Nankabirwa

nankabirwav@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

James K. Tumwine

Affiliation Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Thorkild Tylleskär

Affiliation Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Jolly Nankunda

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, School of Medicine, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Halvor Sommerfelt

Affiliations Centre for International Health, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway, Division of Infectious Disease Control, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo, Norway

for the PROMISE EBF Research Consortium

Membership of the PROMISE EBF Research Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VN JKT TT HS. Performed the experiments: VN JKT JN TT. Analyzed the data: VN JKT TT HS. Wrote the paper: VN JKT JN TT HS.