About the Authors

Sébastien D. S. Pion

sebastien.pion@ird.fr

Affiliation Unité Mixte de Recherche 145, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Christoph Kaiser

Affiliation Basic Health Services Kabarole & Bundbugyo Districts, Fort Portal, Uganda

Fernand Boutros-Toni

Affiliation Institut d'Epidémiologie Neurologique et de Neurologie Tropicale (EA3174), Faculté de Médecine, Limoges, France

Amandine Cournil

Affiliation Unité Mixte de Recherche 145, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Melanie M. Taylor

Affiliation Office of HIV, STD and Hepatitis C Services, Arizona Department of Health Services, Phoenix, Arizona, United States of America

Stefanie E. O. Meredith

Affiliation 134 Chemin du Recredoz, Divonne les Bains, France

Ansgar Stufe

Affiliation Peramiho Mission Hospital, Peramiho, United Republic of Tanzania (URT)

Ione Bertocchi

Affiliation Diocèse de Bouar, Bouar, Central African Republic (CAR)

Walter Kipp

Affiliation Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Pierre-Marie Preux

Affiliation Institut d'Epidémiologie Neurologique et de Neurologie Tropicale (EA3174), Faculté de Médecine, Limoges, France

Michel Boussinesq

Affiliation Unité Mixte de Recherche 145, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and University of Montpellier 1, Montpellier, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SDSP MB. Analyzed the data: SDSP FBT AC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MMT SEOM AS IB WK PMP MB. Wrote the paper: SDSP CK MMT SEOM WK MB.