About the Authors

Sheela V. Shenoi

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Sheela.shenoi@yale.edu

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale Institute of Global Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Tassos C. Kyriakides

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Yale School of Public Health, Biostatistics, Yale Center for Analytical Sciences, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Emily Kainne Dokubo

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Vijayanand Guddera

Roles Data curation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Philanjalo NGO, Tugela Ferry, South Africa, South African Medical Research Council, Durban, South Africa

Peter Vranken

Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Pretoria, South Africa

Mitesh Desai

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Global HIV & TB, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Gerald Friedland

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Section of Infectious Diseases, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Yale Institute of Global Health, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Anthony P. Moll

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Philanjalo NGO, Tugela Ferry, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests. SVS’s spouse previously worked for Merck Pharmaceuticals 1997-2007 and retains stock in his retirement account. There is no conflict of interest regarding this manuscript but it is included for full disclosure. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products associated with this research to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS policies on sharing data and materials.