About the Authors
- Andrew Carr
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* E-mail: acarr@stvincents.com.au
Affiliations Clinical Research Program, Centre for Applied Medical Research, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia, HIV/Immunology/Infectious Diseases Unit, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia
- Jennifer Hoy
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Affiliations Infectious Diseases Unit, Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
- Anton Pozniak
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Affiliation Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
AC is a member for the PLoS Medicine Editorial Board. AC has received research funding from Baxter, GlaxoSmithKline/ViiV Healthcare, Merck, and Pfizer; consultancy fees from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline/ViiV Healthcare, and Merck; lecture and travel sponsorships from Abbott, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline/ViiV Healthcare, and Merck; and has served on advisory boards for Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline/ViiV Healthcare, Merck, and Roche. AC is funded in part by a Practitioner Fellowship of the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council. AC (but not JH or AP) was an investigator in the SWITCHMRK trial; no author participated in the MONET trial. AC has recently received research funding for a clinical trial sponsored by Gilead Sciences. JH's institution has received research funding from GlaxoSmithKline/ViiV Healthcare, Gilead Sciences, and Merck; travel sponsorship from Gilead Sciences, Janssen-Cilag, and Merck; and JH has served on advisory boards for Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline/ViiV Healthcare, Janssen-Cilag, Merck, and Roche. AP has received consultancy fees from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline/ViiV Healthcare, Merck, and Roche; lecture and travel sponsorships from Abbott, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline/ViiV Healthcare, and Merck; and has served on advisory boards for Abbott, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline/ViiV Healthcare, Merck, and Roche and has received research funding from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline/ViiV Healthcare, Merck, and Roche. No pharmaceutical company was involved in the writing of this paper or decision to publish.
Author Contributions
Wrote the first draft of the manuscript: AC. Contributed to the writing of the manuscript: AC JH AP. ICMJE criteria for authorship read and met: AC JH AP. Agree with manuscript results and conclusions: AC JH AP. Performed the initial study search: AP. Conceived and designed the analysis: AC JH AP.