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Funding: This study was made possible through primary funding provided by Mekelle University (Ethiopia) (http://www.mu.edu.et). Venture Strategies Innovations (http://vsinnovations.org), AECID (http://www.aecid.es), and Alcala University (http://www.uah.es) also gave additional funding. Software development was supported by Digital Campus Ltd (http://www.digitalcampus.org), a UK-based not-for-profit company. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Conflict of interest: None.
