About the Authors

Mostafa Shokoohi

Affiliation Regional Knowledge Hub, and WHO Collaborating Centre for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Mohammad Karamouzian

Karamouzian.m@gmail.com

Affiliation Regional Knowledge Hub, and WHO Collaborating Centre for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Razieh Khajekazemi

Affiliation Research Center for Modeling in Health, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Mehdi Osooli

Affiliation Centre for Haemostasis and Thrombosis, Skane University Hospital, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Hamid Sharifi

Affiliation Regional Knowledge Hub, and WHO Collaborating Centre for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Ali Akbar Haghdoost

Affiliation Research Center for Modeling in Health, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Kianoush Kamali

Affiliation Center for Disease Control (CDC), Ministry of Health and Medical Education, Tehran, Iran

Ali Mirzazadeh

Affiliations Regional Knowledge Hub, and WHO Collaborating Centre for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Competing Interests

Kinaoush Kamali has contributed to the development of HIV programs in Iran and is supported by the Ministry of Health. The rest of the authors have declared that no competing interests exist. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AH KK AM MK MS. Performed the experiments: MS RK MK HS MO. Analyzed the data: MK MS RK HS AM AH MO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MK MS RK HS AM AH MO KK. Wrote the paper: MK MS AM MO.