About the Authors

Sandip Patil

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandip Patil, Amrita Rao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Amrita Rao

Contributed equally to this work with: Sandip Patil, Amrita Rao

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Preety Pathak

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

Affiliation Uttar Pradesh State AIDS Control Society, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India

Swarali Kurle

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Arati Mane

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Amit Nirmalkar

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

A. K. Singhal

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Community Health Centre, Department of Medical & Health, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Bangarmau, India

Vinita Verma

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National AIDS Control Organization, New Delhi, India

Mukesh Kumar Singh

Roles Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Community Health Centre, Department of Medical & Health, Government of Uttar Pradesh, Bangarmau, India

D. C. S. Reddy

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

Affiliation Technical Resource Group, National AIDS Control Organization, New Delhi, India

Ashwini Shete

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Manjula Singh

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research Headquarter, New Delhi, India

Raman Gangakhedkar

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Indian Council of Medical Research Headquarter, New Delhi, India

Samiran Panda

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

director@nariindia.org, pandasamiran@gmail.com, samiranpanda.hq@icmr.gov.in

Affiliations Indian Council of Medical Research-National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India, Indian Council of Medical Research Headquarter, New Delhi, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.