About the Authors

Nathan Ford

fordn@who.int

Affiliations Department HIV & Global Hepatitis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Elvin Geng

Affiliation Center for Dissemination and Implementation, Institute for Public Health, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America

Tom Ellman

Affiliation Southern African Medical Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières, Cape Town, South Africa

Catherine Orrell

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa

Peter Ehrenkranz

Affiliation Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Izukanji Sikazwe

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

Andreas Jahn

Affiliation Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi

Miriam Rabkin

Affiliation ICAP, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Stephen Ayisi Addo

Affiliation National AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Accra, Ghana

Anna Grimsrud

Affiliation International AIDS Society, Cape Town, South Africa

Sydney Rosen

Affiliation Department of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Isaac Zulu

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

William Reidy

Affiliation ICAP, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Thabo Lejone

Affiliation SolidarMed, Swiss Organization for Health in Africa, Butha-Buthe, Lesotho

Tsitsi Apollo

Affiliation Ministry of Health and Child Care Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

Charles Holmes

Affiliations Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Ana Francisca Kolling

Affiliation Department of Surveillance, Prevention and Control of STIs, HIV/AIDS and Viral Hepatitis, Ministry of Health, Brasilia, Brazil

Rosina Phate Lesihla

Affiliation National AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Maseru, Lesotho

Huu Hai Nguyen

Affiliation Treatment and Care Department, Viet Nam Authority of HIV/AIDS Control, Ministry of Health, Hanoi, Vietnam

Baker Bakashaba

Affiliation The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), Kampala, Uganda

Lastone Chitembo

Affiliation Department HIV, World Health Organization Lusaka, Zambia

Ghion Tiriste

Affiliation Department HIV, World Health Organization, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Meg Doherty

Affiliation Department HIV & Global Hepatitis Programme, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Helen Bygrave

Affiliation Southern African Medical Unit, Médecins Sans Frontières, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. SR is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine. EG is an academic editor at PLOS Medicine.