About the Authors

Wenkosi Qulu

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenkosi Qulu, Andile Mtshali

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Andile Mtshali

Contributed equally to this work with: Wenkosi Qulu, Andile Mtshali

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

Affiliations Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Farzana Osman

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa

Nonsikelelo Ndlela

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Lungelo Ntuli

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Gugulethu Mzobe

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

Affiliations Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Nivashnee Naicker

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

Affiliation Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa

Nigel Garrett

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa, School of Nursing and Public Health, Discipline of Public Health Medicine, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Anne Rompalo

Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology

Affiliation Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Adrian Mindel

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa

Sinaye Ngcapu

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Lenine Liebenberg

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

Liebenbergl@sun.ac.za

Affiliations Centre for the AIDS Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA), Durban, South Africa, School of Laboratory Medicine and Medical Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.