About the Authors

Chris Beyrer

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

chris.beyrer@duke.edu

Affiliation Duke Global Health Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Robert H. Remien

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation New York State Psychiatric Institute and Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Susan H. Eshleman

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

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

Theresa R. Gamble

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation HIV Prevention Trials Network Leadership and Operations Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jean De Dieu Tapsoba

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

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Rita L. Labbett

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

Affiliation HIV Prevention Trials Network Leadership and Operations Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Philip A. Sullivan

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

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

Oliver Laeyendecker

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

Affiliation Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Peter L. Anderson

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

Affiliation Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences. University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, Colorado, United States of America

Devang Agravat

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

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

James P Hughes

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Daniel D. Driffin

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations HIV Prevention Trials Network 096 Community Advisory Board, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, D3 Consulting Limited Liability Company, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Craig S. Hutchinson

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation HIV Prevention Trials Network Black Caucus, Columbia, Washington, United States of America

Christopher Hucks-Ortiz

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations HIV Prevention Trials Network Black Caucus, Columbia, Washington, United States of America, Equity Solutions, Limited Liability Company, Columbia, Washington, United States of America

Maurice Adair

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation AID Upstate, Greenville, South Carolina, United States of America

Melissa Curry

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Abounding Prosperity, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Shakita Brooks Jones

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Central Alabama Alliance, Resource & Advocacy Center, Montgomery, Alabama, United States of America

Ian L. Haddock

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Normal Anomaly, Houston, Texas, United States of America

Donte Boyd

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation The Ohio State University, College of Social Work, Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

Dale R. Burwen

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

Affiliations Affiliation at the time the study was conducted: Division of AIDS, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America, Current affiliation: Division of Clinical Innovation, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America

Anna Satcher Johnson

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of HIV Prevention, National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Disease and Tuberculosis Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

LaRon E. Nelson

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

Affiliations School of Nursing, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS, School of Public Health, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

on behalf of the HPTN 096 pilot study team

Membership of the HPTN 096 pilot study team is provided in the Acknowledgements

Competing Interests

Both DRB and MJS served as representatives of the funder, NIAID and NIMH, respectively, and both played roles in the study design, data analysis and interpretation, decision to publish, and preparation of the manuscript. Both DDD and CHO received funding from NIH through the award identified in the funding statement for their participation in study design, data analysis and interpretation, and preparation of the manuscript; however, their individual LLCs (D3 Consulting and Equity Solutions) did not play any role in these activities. These competing interests do not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.