About the Authors

Hossein Mirzaei

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

Affiliation HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Abedin Iranpour

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Firooz Esmaeilzadeh

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Public Health, School of Public Health, Maragheh University of Medical Sciences, Maragheh, Iran

Mohsen Barouni

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

hamid.sharifi@ucsf.edu, sharifihami@gmail.com (HS); mohsenbarooni@gmail.com (MB)

Affiliation Health Service Management Research Center, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Fatemeh Mehrabi

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

Affiliation HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Ebrahim Ranjbar

Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Kerman Counseling Center for Behavioral Disorders, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Hamid Sharifi

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

hamid.sharifi@ucsf.edu, sharifihami@gmail.com (HS); mohsenbarooni@gmail.com (MB)

Affiliations HIV/STI Surveillance Research Center, and WHO Collaborating Center for HIV Surveillance, Institute for Futures Studies in Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran, Institute for Global Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.