About the Authors

Andrea L. Wirtz

awirtz1@jhu.edu

Affiliation Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, United States of America

Shruti H. Mehta

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, United States of America

Carl Latkin

Affiliation Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, United States of America

Carla E. Zelaya

Affiliation Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, United States of America

Noya Galai

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, United States of America, Department of Statistics, The University of Haifa, Mt Carmel, Israel

Alena Peryshkina

Affiliation AIDS Infoshare, Moscow, Russian Federation

Vladimir Mogilnyi

Affiliation AIDS Infoshare, Moscow, Russian Federation

Petr Dzhigun

Affiliation AIDS Infoshare, Moscow, Russian Federation

Irina Kostetskaya

Affiliation AIDS Infoshare, Moscow, Russian Federation

Chris Beyrer

Affiliation Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB ALW CEZ NG VM AP CL. Analyzed the data: ALW SM CL. Wrote the paper: ALW. Collected data: PD IK. Reviewed/edited the manuscript: CB SM CL CEZ.