About the Authors

Aastha Gupta

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

aastha.gupta@tballiance.org

Affiliation TB Alliance, New York, NY, United States of America

Sandeep Juneja

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

Affiliation TB Alliance, New York, NY, United States of America

Victor Babawale

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis and Leprosy Control Programme, Abuja, Nigeria

Nurov Rustam Majidovich

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National TB Programme, Dushanbe, Tajikistan

Norbert Ndjeka

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa

Phuong Thi Mai Nguyen

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Programme, Hanoi, Vietnam

Parpieva Nargiza Nusratovna

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National TB Programme, Tashkent, Uzbekistan

David Robert Omanito

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Disease Prevention and Control Bureau, Philippine Department of Health, Manila, Philippines

Tiffany Tiara Pakasi

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Programme, Ministry of Health, Jakarta, Indonesia

Yana Terleeva

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Tuberculosis Programme, Kyiv, Ukraine

Atyrkul Toktogonova

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National TB Centre, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Yasir Waheed

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National TB Control Programme, Islamabad, Pakistan

Zaw Myint

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National TB Programme, Naypyidaw, Myanmar

Zhao Yanlin

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Center for TB Control and Prevention, National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory of China, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China

Suvanand Sahu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Stop TB Partnership, Geneva, Switzerland

Competing Interests

Authors, Aastha Gupta and Sandeep Juneja, are employed by TB Alliance, the non-profit product development partnership that developed pretomanid and the BPaL regimen for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Author, Suvanand Sahu, serves on the Access Advisory Committee (an unpaid role) for TB Alliance, the non-profit product development partnership that developed pretomanid and the BPaL regimen for the treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.