About the Authors
- Adriane Martin Hilber
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Contributed equally to this work with: Adriane Martin Hilber, Suzanna C. Francis
Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Suzanna C. Francis
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Contributed equally to this work with: Adriane Martin Hilber, Suzanna C. Francis
Affiliation Infectious Disease Epidemiology Unit, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Matthew Chersich
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Affiliations Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, International Center for Reproductive Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, Reproductive Health and HIV Research Unit, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Pippa Scott
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Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Shelagh Redmond
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Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Nicole Bender
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Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Paolo Miotti
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Affiliation Office of AIDS Research, United States National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
- Marleen Temmerman
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Affiliation Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, International Center for Reproductive Health, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
- Nicola Low
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* E-mail: low@ispm.unibe.ch
Affiliation Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Competing Interests
Paolo Miotti is an employee of the United States National Institutes of Health.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: AMH SCF MFC PM MT NL. Analyzed the data: AMH SCF MFC PS NL. Wrote the paper: AMH SCF MFC NL. Study selection, data extraction: AMH SCF MFC. Literature searches, retrieval and data entry: SR NB. Interpretation of data: PM MT. Wrote the first draft and approved the final manuscript: AMH. Revised the manuscript and approved the final version: NL. Critically reviewed the manuscript and approved the final version: SCF MFC PS SR NB PM MT.