About the Authors

Chris Beyrer

cbeyrer@jhu.edu

Affiliation Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Andrea L. Wirtz

Affiliation Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

George O’Hara

Affiliation Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Nolwenn Léon

Affiliation Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Geneva, Switzerland

Michel Kazatchkine

Affiliations Office of the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Geneva, Switzerland, Global Health Center, the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

We have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: CB is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine. MK is the United Nations Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. NL works at the Office of the UN Secretary General Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia.