About the Authors

Barbara Maraux

Affiliation INSERM U1018, Villejuif, France

Pascale Lissouba

Affiliation Médecins sans Frontières, Paris, France

Reathe Rain-Taljaard

Affiliation Progressus Research and Development, Johannesburg, South Africa

Dirk Taljaard

Affiliation CHAPS, Parktown, Johannesburg, South Africa

Julie Bouscaillou

Affiliation Médecins du Monde, Paris, France

David Lewis

Affiliations Western Sydney Sexual Health Centre, Parramatta, Australia, Marie Bashir Institute for Infectious Diseases and Biosecurity and Sydney Medical School-Westmead, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

Adrian Puren

Affiliations Centre for HIV and STIs, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, South Africa

Bertran Auvert

bertran.auvert@uvsq.fr

Affiliations INSERM U1018, Villejuif, France, AP-HP, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, Boulogne, France, University of Versailles-Saint Quentin, Versailles, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: BA PL. Formal analysis: BM PL BA JB. Funding acquisition: BA. Investigation: BA RRT DT AP DL. Project administration: DL AP RRT DT BA. Resources: DL AP. Supervision: RRT DT AP. Visualization: PL JB. Writing – original draft: BA PL BM. Writing – review & editing: DL AP.