About the Authors

Valentine Sing’oei

Roles Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft

Affiliations HJF Medical Research International, Kisumu, Kenya, United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

Chiaka Nwoga

Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Adam Yates

Roles Data curation

Affiliations U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

John Owuoth

Roles Methodology

Affiliations HJF Medical Research International, Kisumu, Kenya, United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

June Otieno

Roles Methodology

Affiliation United States Army Medical Research Directorate-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya

Erica Broach

Roles Project administration

Affiliations U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Qun Li

Roles Data curation

Affiliations U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Zebiba Hassen

Roles Data curation

Affiliations U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Michelle Imbach

Roles Methodology

Affiliations U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Mark Milazzo

Roles Data curation

Affiliations U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Tsedal Mebrahtu

Roles Project administration

Affiliations U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Merlin L. Robb

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliation Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Julie A. Ake

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition

Affiliations U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Christina S. Polyak

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliations U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

Trevor A. Crowell

Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

tcrowell@hivresearch.org

Affiliations U.S. Military HIV Research Program, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, United States of America, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

on behalf of the RV393 Study Group

Membership of the RV393 Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.