About the Authors

Rewa Kohli

Affiliation National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Vidula Purohit

Affiliation Maharashtra Association of Anthropological Sciences, Pune, India

Latika Karve

Affiliation National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Vinod Bhalerao

Affiliation National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Shilpa Karvande

Affiliation Maharashtra Association of Anthropological Sciences, Pune, India

Sheela Rangan

Affiliation Maharashtra Association of Anthropological Sciences, Pune, India

Srikanth Reddy

Affiliation National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Ramesh Paranjape

Affiliation National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Seema Sahay

ssahay@nariindia.org

Affiliation National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS S. Rangan VP SK. Performed the experiments: RK SS VP LK VB. Analyzed the data: SS S. Reddy RK VP SK LK VB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS S. Rangan RP. Wrote the paper: SS RK RP S. Reddy VP SK S. Rangan LK VB.