About the Authors

Martin W. G. Brinkhof

Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland

Andrew Boulle

Affiliation Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Ralf Weigel

Affiliation Lighthouse Clinic, Lilongwe, Malawi

Eugène Messou

Affiliation Centre de Prise en Charge de Recherches et de Formation, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Colin Mathers

Affiliation Information, Evidence and Research Cluster, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland

Catherine Orrell

Affiliation The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa

François Dabis

Affiliation Institut de Santé Publique, d'Epidémiologie et de Développement (ISPED), Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France

Margaret Pascoe

Affiliation Newlands Clinic, Harare, Zimbabwe

Matthias Egger

egger@ispm.unibe.ch

Affiliations Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Switzerland, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

for the International epidemiological Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA)

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: MWGB AB RW EM CM CO FD MP ME. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: MWGB AB RW EM CM CO FD MP ME. Designed the experiments/the study: MWGB EM FD ME. Analyzed the data: MWGB CM. Collected data/did experiments for the study: AB RW EM CM CO MP. Enrolled patients: RW EM CO. Contributed to the writing of the paper: MWGB AB RW EM CO FD MP ME. Responsible for the data contributed by one of the participating cohorts (PI for the cohort study): AB. Contributed conceptually to multiple iterations of this analysis: AB. Responsible for the data contributed by participating cohorts: RW EM CO MP. Analyzed African mortality data to prepare the estimates and projections of the mortality levels in HIV-negative African population: CM.