About the Authors

M-J. S. Milloy

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Thomas Kerr

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Mark Tyndall

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Julio Montaner

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Evan Wood

uhri-ew@cfenet.ubc.ca

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Competing Interests

Evan Wood, Thomas Kerr and M-J Milloy declare that there is no competing interest that they should disclose. Julio Montaner has received educational grants from, served as an ad hoc adviser to or spoken at various events sponsored by Abbott Laboratories, Agouron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., Borean Pharma AS, Bristol-Myers Squibb, DuPont Pharma, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Hoffmann-La Roche, Immune Response Corporation, Incyte, Janssen-Ortho Inc., Kucera Pharmaceutical Company, Merck Frosst Laboratories, Pfizer Canada Inc., Sanofi Pasteur, Shire Biochem Inc., Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and Trimeris Inc. Mark Tyndall has received research grants from and served as an ad hoc adviser to Tibotec (J&J), BMS and Gilead Sciences.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EW. Performed the experiments: MJSM. Analyzed the data: MJSM EW. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: TK MT JM. Wrote the paper: MJSM. Edited the manuscript: EV TK.