About the Authors

Zahra Abdolahinia

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

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, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Faculty of Public Health, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran

Sana Eybpoosh

Contributed equally to this work with: Sana Eybpoosh, Hamid Sharifi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

sharifihami@gmail.com (HS); sana.eybpoosh@gmail.com (SE)

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Parya Jangipour Afshar

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

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

Ali Karamoozian

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Kayhan Azadmanesh

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

Affiliation Department of Molecular Virology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran

Hamid Sharifi

Contributed equally to this work with: Sana Eybpoosh, Hamid Sharifi

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

sharifihami@gmail.com (HS); sana.eybpoosh@gmail.com (SE)

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, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.