About the Authors

Sassy Molyneux

SMolyneux@kemri-wellcome.org

Affiliations Health Systems and Social Science Research Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute -Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya, Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, The Ethox Centre, Department of Public Health and Primary Health Care, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

Maureen Njue

Affiliation Health Systems and Social Science Research Group, Kenya Medical Research Institute -Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Mwanamvua Boga

Affiliation Kilifi Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya

Lilian Akello

Affiliation Malaria Consortium, Kampala, Uganda

Peter Olupot-Olupot

Affiliation Mbale Regional Referral Hospital, Mbale, Uganda

Charles Engoru

Affiliation Soroti Regional Referral Hospital, Soroti, Uganda

Sarah Kiguli

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics, Mulago National Referral Hospital, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Kathryn Maitland

Affiliations Kilifi Clinical Trials Facility, Kenya Medical Research Institute-Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kilifi, Kenya, Wellcome Trust Centre for Clinical Tropical Medicine, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, United Kingdom

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Provided critical comments on the manuscript: MB LA POO CE SK. Approved the final version of the manuscript: SM MN MB LA POO CE SK KM. Conceived and designed the experiments: SM MB LA POO CE SK KM. Analyzed the data: SM MN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SM MN. Wrote the paper: SM MN KM.