About the Authors

Shelley N. Facente

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

shelley@facenteconsulting.com

Affiliations Facente Consulting, Richmond, CA, United States of America, Vitalant Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Rachel Grinstein

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Roberta Bruhn

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vitalant Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Zhanna Kaidarova

Roles Formal analysis

Affiliation Vitalant Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Erin Wilson

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Jennifer Hecht

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations San Francisco AIDS Foundation, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, Springboard HealthLab, Berkeley, CA, United States of America

Katie Burk

Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Facente Consulting, Richmond, CA, United States of America, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, United States of America

Eduard Grebe

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Vitalant Research Institute, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States of America, South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Meghan D. Morris

Roles Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

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

Competing Interests

Shelley N. Facente is affiliated to Facente Consulting. Facente Consulting provided support in the form of salary for author S.N.F., but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. Authors Shelley N. Facente and Eduard Grebe have received consulting fees and research support for unrelated work from Gilead Sciences. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. End Hep C SF has received donations from the Gilead Foundation and the AbbVie Foundation, but those donations are unrelated to the current work and no direct funding was received by any of the co-authors from these donations. None of these interests alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.