About the Authors

Judith Ziske

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Andrea Kunz

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Julius Sewangi

Affiliation Regional AIDS Control Program Mbeya Region, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Mbeya, Tanzania

Inga Lau

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Festo Dugange

Affiliation Kyela District Hospital, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, Kyela, Tanzania

Andrea Hauser

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Wolf Kirschner

Affiliation Forschung Beratung+Evaluation, Berlin, Germany

Gundel Harms

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Stefanie Theuring

stefanie.theuring@charite.de

Affiliation Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany

Competing Interests

Author W. Kirschner is employed by "Forschung Beratung+Evaluation Berlin". They were involved for statistical counseling for data analysis. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Revision of manuscript: JZ AK JS IL FD AH WK GH ST. Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ AK JS IL FD GH ST. Performed the experiments: JZ JS IL FD. Analyzed the data: JZ AK IL AH WK ST. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ AK JS FD GH. Wrote the paper: JZ AK JS IL FD AH WK GH ST.