About the Authors

Stephen J. Burke

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen J. Burke, Elliot Lass

Affiliation University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Elliot Lass

Contributed equally to this work with: Stephen J. Burke, Elliot Lass

Affiliation University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Paul Thistle

Affiliations University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, Karanda Hospital, Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe, The University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

Lovemore Katumbe

Affiliation The Howard Hospital, Glendale, Zimbabwe

Arif Jetha

Affiliations University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, The Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, Canada

Dan Schwarz

Affiliation Brigham and Women's Hospital and Children's Hospital of Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Shelly Bolotin

Affiliation The Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, Canada

R. D. Barker

Affiliations Murambinda Mission Hospital, Murambinda, Zimbabwe, Kings College Hospital, NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Andrew Simor

Affiliation University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Michael Silverman

Michael.Silverman@utoronto.ca

Affiliations University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, The Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Toronto, Canada, Lakeridge Health Corp, Oshawa, Canada

Competing Interests

No authors have any potential personal, professional, or commercial conflicts of interest in the material presented in this manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSS PT. Performed the experiments: EL SJB PT MSS DS RDB LK SB AS AJ. Analyzed the data: AJ RDB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AJ. Wrote the paper: EL SJB PT MSS.