About the Authors

Keith Sabin

Affiliation Strategic Information and Evaluation Department, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Geneva, Switzerland

Jinkou Zhao

jinkou.zhao@theglobalfund.org

Affiliations Technical Advice and Partnerships Department, The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland, Jiangsu Provincial Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Nanjing, China

Jesus Maria Garcia Calleja

Affiliation Department of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Yaou Sheng

Affiliation Technical Advice and Partnerships Department, The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland

Sonia Arias Garcia

Affiliation Strategic Information and Evaluation Department, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, Geneva, Switzerland

Annette Reinisch

Affiliation Technical Advice and Partnerships Department, The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland

Ryuichi Komatsu

Affiliation Technical Evaluation Reference Group Support Team, The Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

The authors declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JZ KS JMGC. Performed the experiments: JZ YS SAG. Analyzed the data: JZ KS AR RK YS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JZ KS JMGC AR RK. Wrote the paper: JZ KS JMGC RK.