About the Authors

Arianna R. Means

‡ Indicates alphabetically ordered joint first authorship.

Affiliation Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Kathryn A. Risher

‡ Indicates alphabetically ordered joint first authorship.

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

Eva L. Ujeneza

‡ Indicates alphabetically ordered joint first authorship.

Affiliation The South African Department of Science and Technology, National Research Foundation Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Innocent Maposa

Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, School of Health and Applied Sciences, Polytechnic of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia

Joseph Nondi

Affiliation National AIDS Control Program, Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW), Dar es Salaam, The United Republic of Tanzania

Steven E. Bellan

steve.bellan@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, College of Public Health, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: ARM KAR ELU IM JN SEB. Data curation: JN SEB. Formal analysis: SEB ARM KAR ELU. Funding acquisition: SEB. Methodology: ARM KAR ELU IM JN SEB. Software: SEB. Supervision: SEB. Validation: SEB. Visualization: SEB. Writing – original draft: ARM KAR ELU SEB. Writing – review & editing: ARM KAR ELU IM JN SEB.