About the Authors

Andrea A. Kim

aakim@cdc.gov

Affiliation US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Global Health (CGH), Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis (DGHT), Nairobi, Kenya

Bharat S. Parekh

Affiliation US CDC, CGH, DGHT, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mamo Umuro

Affiliation Kenya Ministry of Health, National Public Health Laboratory Services, Nairobi, Kenya

Tura Galgalo

Affiliation Kenya Ministry of Health, National Public Health Laboratory Services, Nairobi, Kenya

Rebecca Bunnell

Affiliation US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Global Health (CGH), Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis (DGHT), Nairobi, Kenya

Ernest Makokha

Affiliation US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Center for Global Health (CGH), Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis (DGHT), Nairobi, Kenya

Trudy Dobbs

Affiliation US CDC, CGH, DGHT, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Patrick Murithi

Affiliation Kenya Ministry of Health, National AIDS Control Council, Nairobi, Kenya

Nicholas Muraguri

Affiliation Kenya Ministry of Health, National AIDS and STI Control Programme, Nairobi, Kenya

Kevin M. De Cock

Affiliation US CDC, CGH, Nairobi, Kenya

Jonathan Mermin

Affiliation US CDC, CGH, Nairobi, Kenya

2007 KAIS study group

Membership of the 2007 KAIS Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

As an inventor of the LAg-Avidity EIA and as per policy of U.S. government, BSP receives royalties from the sale of this assay. There are no patents relating to this assay and there are no further products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors’ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AAK BSP RB JM. Performed the experiments: AAK BSP MU TG TD. Analyzed the data: AAK BSP RB JM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: BSP TD MU TG. Wrote the paper: AAK BSP MU TG RB EM TD PM NM KDC JM.