About the Authors

Juliet Mpendo

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

jmpendo@iavi.or.ug

Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute-International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, HIV Vaccine Program, Entebbe, Uganda

Gaudensia Mutua

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Annet Nanvubya

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute-International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, HIV Vaccine Program, Entebbe, Uganda

Omu Anzala

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Julien Nyombayire

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Project San Francisco (PSF), Kigali, Rwanda

Etienne Karita

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Project San Francisco (PSF), Kigali, Rwanda

Len Dally

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation EMMES Corporation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Drew Hannaman

Roles Methodology

Affiliation Ichor Medical Systems, Inc., San Diego, California, United States of America

Matt Price

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, NY, United States of America

Patricia E. Fast

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, NY, United States of America

Frances Priddy

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, NY, United States of America

Huub C. Gelderblom

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA, United States of America

Nancy K. Hills

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

PEF, MP and FP were employees of IAVI at the time of the study. DH is an employee of Ichor Medical Sciences Inc which owns the rights to the TriGrid Delivery System. The rest of the authors have no competing interests.