About the Authors

Selamawit Woldesenbet

woldeselam@gmail.com

Affiliation Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

Debra Jackson

Affiliations School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, United Nations Children’s Fund, New York, United States of America

Carl Lombard

Affiliation Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

Thu-Ha Dinh

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Adrian Puren

Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Virology and Communicable Diseases, Faculty of Health Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Gayle Sherman

Affiliations National Institute for Communicable Diseases of the National Health Laboratory Services, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Vundli Ramokolo

Affiliation Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

Tanya Doherty

Affiliations Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Mary Mogashoa

Affiliation Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Pretoria, South Africa

Sanjana Bhardwaj

Affiliation United Nations Children’s Fund, Pretoria, South Africa

Mickey Chopra

Affiliations School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, United Nations Children’s Fund, New York, United States of America

Nathan Shaffer

Affiliation World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Yogan Pillay

Affiliation National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa

Ameena Goga

Affiliations Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, Health Systems Research Unit, Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa

South African PMTCT Evaluation (SAPMCTE) Team

The complete membership of the South African PMTCT Evaluation (SAPMCTE) team can be found in the Acknowledgments

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AG DJ THD SW. Performed the experiments: AG DJ THD SW AP GS VR. Analyzed the data: SW CL. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AP GS SW CL. Wrote the paper: SW AG DJ CL TD YP MM THD MC SB NS AP GS VR.