About the Authors

Lisa Lazarus

lis_laz@yahoo.com

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Sheetal Patel

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Ashley Shaw

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Sean Leblanc

Affiliations PROUD Community Advisory Committee, Ottawa, Canada, Drug Users Advocacy League, Ottawa, Canada

Christine Lalonde

Affiliation PROUD Community Advisory Committee, Ottawa, Canada

Manisha Hladio

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Kira Mandryk

Affiliation Ottawa Public Health, Ottawa, Canada

Cynthia Horvath

Affiliation Ottawa Public Health, Ottawa, Canada

William Petrcich

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada

Claire Kendall

Affiliations Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada, CT Lamont Primary Health Care Research Centre, Bruyere Research Institute, Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Mark W. Tyndall

Affiliations Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Canada, University of Ottawa at the Ottawa Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases, Ottawa, Canada

for the Proud Community Advisory Committee

PROUD Community Advisory Committee members are thanked in the Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: LL AS SL KM CH CK MWT. Formal analysis: LL SP AS WP MWT. Funding acquisition: MWT. Methodology: LL SP AS SL KM CH CK MWT. Software: SP WP. Writing – original draft: LL. Writing – review & editing: LL SP AS SL CL MH KM CH WP CK MWT.