About the Authors

Viviane D. Lima

vlima@cfenet.ubc.ca

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Robert S. Hogg

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Julio S. G. Montaner

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

Drs. Hogg and Montaner have received honorariums, travel grants to attend conferences and research grants from pharmaceutical companies working in the area of HIV/AIDS. Dr. Lima declares no conflict.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VDL RSH JM. Analyzed the data: VDL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: VDL RSH JM. Wrote the paper: VDL RSH JM.