About the Authors

Carina Cesar

carina.cesar@huesped.org.ar

Affiliation Fundación Huésped, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Bryan E. Shepherd

Affiliation Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Alejandro J. Krolewiecki

Affiliation Fundación Huésped, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Valeria I. Fink

Affiliation Fundación Huésped, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Mauro Schechter

Affiliation Projeto Praça Onze, Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Suely H. Tuboi

Affiliation Projeto Praça Onze, Hospital Universitário Clementino Fraga Filho and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marcelo Wolff

Affiliation Fundación Arriarán and Facultad de Medicina, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile

Jean W. Pape

Affiliation Le Groupe Haïtien d'Etude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes in Port-au-Prince (GHESKIO), Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Paul Leger

Affiliation Le Groupe Haïtien d'Etude du Sarcome de Kaposi et des Infections Opportunistes in Port-au-Prince (GHESKIO), Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Denis Padgett

Affiliation Instituto Hondureño de Seguridad Social and Universidad Autónoma de Honduras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Juan Sierra Madero

Affiliation Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, México City, México

Eduardo Gotuzzo

Affiliation Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia Facultad de Medicina and Instituto de Medicina Tropical Alexander von Humboldt, Lima, Perú

Omar Sued

Affiliation Fundación Huésped, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Catherine C. McGowan

Affiliation Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Daniel R. Masys

Affiliation Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

Pedro E. Cahn

Affiliation Fundación Huésped, Buenos Aires, Argentina

for The Caribbean
Central and South America Network for HIV Research (CCASAnet) Collaboration
of the International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Program

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CTC BES AJK VIF MS SHT MW JWP PL DP JSM EG CCM DRM PC. Performed the experiments: CTC BES PC. Analyzed the data: CTC BES AJK VIF MS SHT MW JWP PL DP JSM EG CCM DRM PC. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CTC BES PC. Wrote the paper: CTC BES AJK VIF MS SHT MW JWP PL DP JSM EG CCM DRM PC.