About the Authors

Chris Beyrer

cbeyrer@jhu.edu

Affiliations Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, International AIDS Society, Geneva, Switzerland

Keletso Makofane

Affiliation The Anova Health Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

Ifeanyi Orazulike

Affiliation International Center for Advocacy on Rights to Health (ICARH), Abuja, Nigeria

Daouda Diouf

Affiliation Enda Santé, Dakar, Senegal

Stefan D. Baral

Affiliation Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

CB served as the International Co-Chair for the International AIDS Conference 2016 in Durban, South Africa and is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS Medicine. SDB is a member of the Editorial Board of PLOS ONE.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: CB SDB. Data curation: CB SDB. Formal analysis: CB SDB KM. Funding acquisition: CB. Investigation: CB SDB KM IO DD. Methodology: CB SDB. Project administration: CB. Resources: CB. Supervision: CB SDB. Writing – original draft: CB. Writing – review & editing: CB SDB KM IO DD.