About the Authors

Tiffany R. Phillips

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

TPhillips@mshc.org.au

Affiliations Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Nicholas Medland

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, The Kirby Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Eric P. F. Chow

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Centre for Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Kate Maddaford

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Rebecca Wigan

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Christopher K. Fairley

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Jason J. Ong

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work

Affiliations Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Jade E. Bilardi

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

‡ These authors are joint senior authors on this work

Affiliations Melbourne Sexual Health Centre, Alfred Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Central Clinical School, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, Department of General Practice, University of Melbourne, VIC, Australia

Competing Interests

NM, EPFC and JJO have received a research grant from Gilead Pharmaceuticals to conduct this investigator-initiated study. Gilead Pharmaceuticals had no input in the research plan, recruitment, analysis or decision to publish the paper. EPFC is supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Emerging Leadership Investigator Grant (GNT1172873). JJO is supported by an Australian NHMRC Early Career Fellowship Grant (APP1104781). JEB is supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellowship (DE200100049). All other authors have no conflicts of interest to declare. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.