About the Authors

Hila Haskelberg

hhaskelberg@kirby.unsw.edu.au

Affiliation The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Damien V. Cordery

Affiliation The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Janaki Amin

Affiliation The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Anthony D. Kelleher

Affiliations The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia

David A. Cooper

Affiliations The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia

Sean Emery

Affiliation The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

on behalf of the STEAL Study Group

Membership of the STEAL Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

Sean Emery is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria. Hila Haskelberg, Damien Cordery and Janaki Amin declare no conflict of interest. Anthony Kelleher has received travel grant support from Merck Research Laboratories on two occasions since 2010 and from ViiV for consultancy work. David Cooper has received grants and consultancies and Honoraria from Gilead and ViiV. Sean Emery has received research grant support from Abbvie, Gilead Sciences, Merck Research Laboratories, Pfizer, and ViiV Healthcare. This does not alter adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: DAC ADK SE. Analyzed the data: HH DVC. Wrote the paper: HH. Developed and oversaw the protocol, reviewed all data and analyses and reviewed the manuscript: HH DVC JA ADK DAC SE.