Following publication of the original article [1], the authors expressed their wish to provide a French version of the article.

To this end, please find a (French) translation of the article in the additional file included with this update (Additional file 1).

By providing this translation, the authors hope to expand the readership of their article; for example, in French the article is more widely accessible to Malagasy people wanting to know more about the outcomes of the meeting detailed in the article.

The authors thank you for reading this update.