About the Authors

Timothy K. Thomas

tft5@cdc.gov

Affiliations Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)/CDC, Kisumu, Kenya

Rose Masaba

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

Craig B. Borkowf

Affiliation Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Richard Ndivo

Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kisumu, Kenya

Clement Zeh

Affiliations Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)/CDC, Kisumu, Kenya

Ambrose Misore

Affiliation Provincial Medical Office - Nyanza Province, Ministry of Health, Kisumu, Kenya

Juliana Otieno

Affiliation New Nyanza Provincial General Hospital, Kisumu, Kenya

Denise Jamieson

Affiliation Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Michael C. Thigpen

Affiliation Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Marc Bulterys

Affiliation Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Center for Global Health, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Laurence Slutsker

Affiliations Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)/CDC, Kisumu, Kenya, Division of Parasitic Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Kevin M. De Cock

Affiliations Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)/CDC, Kisumu, Kenya

Pauli N. Amornkul

Affiliations Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI)/CDC, Kisumu, Kenya

Alan E. Greenberg

Affiliation Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mary Glenn Fowler

Affiliation Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

for the KiBS Study Team

Membership of the KiBS Study Team is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The Academic Editor, Lynne Mofenson, has disclosed that she worked with authors Mary Glenn Fowler and Michael C. Thigpen on other projects unrelated to the study reported in this paper. The authors have no competing interests to declare.

Author Contributions

ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: PNA CBB MB KMD MGF AEG DJ AM RM RN JO MCT LS TKT CZ. Agree with the manuscript's results and conclusions: PNA CBB MB KMD MGF AEG DJ AM RM RN JO MCT LS TKT CZ. Enrolled patients: RM. Conceived and designed the experiments: PNA MB KMD MGF AEG AM JO LS TKT. Performed the experiments: PNA CBB DJ RM RN MCT TKT CZ. Analyzed the data: CBB MB KMD MGF AEG RM RN TKT CZ. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CBB MB KMD MGF AEG RM RN TKT CZ. Wrote the first draft of the paper: PNA CBB MB KMD MGF AEG RM RN MCT LS TKT. Contributed to the writing of the paper: PNA CBB MB KMD MGF AEG RM RN MCT LS TKT. Statistical analyses: CBB.