Ethical approval and consent of participants
Ethical approval for this study was sought and obtained from the Research Ethics Committee at Mbarara University of Science and Technology. Permission to use and analyze the data was got from the Kasase local district authorities.
Availability of data and materials
All data supporting our findings are contained in the paper. There are no restrictions to the data sources, however full details to the data may be accessed on reasonable request from the corresponding author.
Competing interest
The authors declare that there are no competing interests.
Funding
The research was financially supported by the partners
Author’s contribution
FB was involved in the design, implementation, data analysis, interpretation of findings, and write-up of the paper. EMM, MN, BB were involved in the conception of the idea, design, implementation, interpretation of findings, and review of the paper. ACW, RN, RM, and SB were involved in the design, implementation, analysis, and write-up of the paper. GS, PP, RR, and DG were involved in the conception of the idea, design, and review, and write-up of the paper. DSA was involved in the interpretation of findings and write-up of the manuscript. All the authors have read and approved this manuscript.
Acknowledgments
We acknowledge; David Bangsberg, Anna Louise Baylor, Libby Cunningham, Raquel Reyes, Pat Lee, Sara Mian-McCarthy, Moses Wetyanga, Sarah Masika, Raphael Mbusa, Nobert Mumbere the Community Health Workers for assessing, treating, and reporting cases, the health workers who compiled the data, the community for utilizing the services and the people who cleaned and validated the data.