About the Authors

Batya Elul

be2124@columbia.edu

Affiliations ICAP at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Paulin Basinga

Affiliations Department of Community Health, National University of Rwanda School of Public Health, Kigali, Rwanda, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Harriet Nuwagaba-Biribonwoha

Affiliation ICAP at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Suzue Saito

Affiliations ICAP at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Deborah Horowitz

Affiliation ICAP at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Denis Nash

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program, City University of New York School of Public Health at Hunter College, New York, New York, United States of America

Jules Mugabo

Affiliation Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC), Ministry of Health, Kigali, Rwanda

Veronicah Mugisha

Affiliation ICAP at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Etienne Rugigana

Affiliation Department of Community Health, National University of Rwanda School of Public Health, Kigali, Rwanda

Richard Nkunda

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory (NRL), Kigali, Rwanda

Anita Asiimwe

Affiliation Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC), Ministry of Health, Kigali, Rwanda

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: BE DN HNB PB AA. Performed the experiments: BE PB ER HNB DSH JM VM RN. Analyzed the data: BE PB HNB SS. Wrote the paper: BE PB HNB SS DN VM.