About the Authors
- Mathieu Maheu-Giroux
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* E-mail: mathieu.maheu-giroux@mcgill.ca
Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Occupational Health, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Juan F. Vesga
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, St Mary’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
- Souleymane Diabaté
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Affiliations Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Québec, Canada, Département d’infectiologie et santé publique, Université Alassane Ouattara, Bouaké, Côte d’Ivoire
- Michel Alary
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Affiliations Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Québec, Canada, Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Université Laval, Québec, Canada, Institut national de santé publique du Québec, Québec, Canada
- Stefan Baral
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Affiliation Key Populations Program, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Daouda Diouf
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Affiliation Enda Santé, Dakar, Sénégal
- Kouamé Abo
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Affiliation Programme National de Lutte contre le SIDA, Ministère de la Santé et de l’Hygiène Publique, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire
- Marie-Claude Boily
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Affiliation Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, St Mary’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
MA is the principal investigator on grants from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR), and the Public Health Agency of Canada. These grants are paid to MA's institution and are not related to the present manuscript. SB is a volunteer Associate Editor of PLOS ONE.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: MCB MA. Data curation: MMG SD JFV SB. Formal analysis: MMG JFV. Funding acquisition: MA MCB MMG. Investigation: MMG SD JFV SB MCB. Methodology: JFV MCB MMG. Project administration: MA MCB. Resources: SD SB KA DD MA. Software: JFV MMG. Supervision: MCB MA. Validation: MMG DD JFV KA MA MCB SB SD. Visualization: MMG. Writing – original draft: MMG. Writing – review & editing: MMG DD JFV KA MA MCB SB SD.