Contexts for developing of national essential diagnostics list. Lessons from a mixed-methods study of existing documents, stakeholders and decision making on tier-specific essential in-vitro diagnostics in African countries

• Winny Koster ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: winnykoster@gmail.com

  Affiliation Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5365-6412

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• Elishebah Maruta Mutegi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7634-1341

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• Francis Ocen,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3819-9935

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• Collins Otieno Odhiambo,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5534-8720

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• Maina Michael Waweru,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Albert Gautier Ndione,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Sociology, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar, Senegal

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• Sri Lakshmi Priyanka Yerra,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington State, United States of America

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• Jenny L. Grunwald,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington State, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8209-2794

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• Delores Mack,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Health Systems and Population Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington State, United States of America

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• Kekeletso Kao,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation FIND, Geneva, Switzerland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8404-9714

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• Lucy A. Perrone,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington State, United States of America, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington State, United States of America, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2185-688X

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• Pascale Ondoa

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, African Society for Laboratory Medicine, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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