About the Authors

Lara Vojnov

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

vojnovl@who.int

Current address: World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Affiliation Clinton Health Access Initiative, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Sergio Carmona

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

Affiliation National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

Clement Zeh

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

Affiliation Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/TB, US Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jessica Markby

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

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Debrah Boeras

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

Affiliation Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/TB, US Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Marta R. Prescott

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

Affiliation Clinton Health Access Initiative, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Anthony L. H. Mayne

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

Affiliation University of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

Souleymane Sawadogo

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

Affiliation Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/TB, US Centers for Disease Control, Windhoek, Namibia

Christiane Adje-Toure

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

Affiliation Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/TB, US Centers for Disease Control, Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire

Guoqing Zhang

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

Affiliation Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/TB, US Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Mercedes Perez Gonzalez

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

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Wendy S. Stevens

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Meg Doherty

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Chunfu Yang

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

Affiliation Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/TB, US Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Heather Alexander

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

Affiliation Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/TB, US Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Trevor F. Peter

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinton Health Access Initiative, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

John Nkengasong

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/TB, US Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

the DBS for VL Diagnostics Investigation Consortium

Membership of VL Diagnostics Investigation Consortium is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.