About the Authors

Wendy Zhang

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Nadia O’Brien

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Jamie I. Forrest

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Kate A. Salters

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Thomas L. Patterson

Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California, United States of America

Julio S. G. Montaner

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Robert S. Hogg

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Viviane D. Lima

vlima@cfenet.ubc.ca

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts to report: Dr. Robert Hogg has held grant funding from the National Institutes of Health, Canadian Institutes of Health Research National Health Research Development Program, Health Canada, GlaxoSmithKline and Merck Frosst Laboratories. Dr. Julio S.G. Montaner has received grants from Abbott, Biolytical, Boehringer Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Janssen, Merck and ViiV Healthcare. He is also supported by the Ministry of Health Services and the Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport, from the Province of British Columbia; through a Knowledge Translation Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR); and through an Avant-Garde Award (No. 1DP1DA026182-01) from the National Institute of Drug Abuse, at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. He has also received support from the International AIDS Society, United Nations AIDS Program, World Health Organization, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health Research-Office of AIDS Research, National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, The United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPfAR), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, French National Agency for Research on AIDS & Viral Hepatitis (ANRS), Public Health Agency of Canada. He has academic partnerships with the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Providence Health Care and Vancouver Coastal Health. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VDL WZ RSH TLP JSGM. Performed the experiments: VDL RSH. Analyzed the data: WZ VDL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: NO WZ JIF VDL RSH. Wrote the paper: WZ NO JIF KAS. Statistical analysis: WZ VDL.