About the Authors

Tendesayi Kufa

tkufa@auruminstitute.org (TK); tmabuto@auruminstitute.org (TM)

Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, The School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Tonderai Mabuto

tkufa@auruminstitute.org (TK); tmabuto@auruminstitute.org (TM)

Affiliation The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

Evans Muchiri

Affiliation The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa

Salome Charalambous

Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, The School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Dominique Rosillon

Affiliation GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, Wavre, Belgium

Gavin Churchyard

Affiliations The Aurum Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, The School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Rebecca C. Harris

Affiliation CROMSOURCE on behalf of GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines, Wavre, Belgium

Competing Interests

The authors have read the journal's policy and have the following conflicts: DR is employed by GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines and has stock ownership in the GlaxoSmithKline Group of Companies. RH was an employee of CROM source working on behalf of GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines. All other authors declare no conflicts of interest. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: TK SC GC RCH. Performed the experiments: TK TM. Analyzed the data: TK TM EM SC DR GC RCH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK TM EM SC DR GC RCH. Wrote the paper: TK. Reviewed iterative versions of the manuscript: TM EM SC DR GC RCH. Conducted the literature search and came up with a list of studies of studies for inclusion in the review: TK TM.