About the Authors

Arn J. Schilder

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada

Aranka Anema

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada

Jay Pai

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada

Ashleigh Rich

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada

Cari L. Miller

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser, Burnaby, Canada

Keith Chan

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada

Steffanie A. Strathdee

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada, Division of Global Public Health, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, San Diego, United States of America

David Moore

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Julio S. G. Montaner

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Robert S. Hogg

robert_hogg@sfu.ca

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser, Burnaby, Canada

Competing Interests

Dr. Anema is supported by a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship Award from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Dr. Hogg is supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research and US National Institutes of Health (R01DA031055). He has also received unrestricted funding from Merck. Dr. Montaner is supported by the British Columbia Ministry of Health and by the US National Institutes of Health (R01DA036307). He has also received unrestricted funding from Abbvie, Bristol- Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Janssen, Merck, and ViiV Healthcare. Dr. Moore is supported by Canadian Institutes of Health Research and US National Institutes of Health (R01DA031055). Dr. Strathdee is supported by US National Institutes of Health (R37 DA019829). The study was supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and by the US National Institutes of Health (R01DA031055). There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials, as detailed online in the guide for authors.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AS AA DM RSH. Performed the experiments: SS RSH JM DM. Analyzed the data: AA AS KC DM JSGM RSH. Wrote the paper: AS AA JP AR CLM KC SS DM JSGM RSH.