About the Authors

Etienne Karita

Affiliation Projet San Francisco, Kigali, Rwanda

Matt A Price

mprice@iavi.org

Affiliations International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America, UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Shabir Lakhi

Affiliation Zambia Emory HIV Research Project, Lusaka, Ndola and Kitwe, Zambia

William Kilembe

Affiliation Zambia Emory HIV Research Project, Lusaka, Ndola and Kitwe, Zambia

Anatoli Kamali

Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute, Masaka and Entebbe, Uganda

Eugene Ruzagira

Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute, Masaka and Entebbe, Uganda

Eric Hunter

Affiliations Projet San Francisco, Kigali, Rwanda, Zambia Emory HIV Research Project, Lusaka, Ndola and Kitwe, Zambia, Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Paul Farmer

Affiliation Emory Vaccine Center, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Susan Allen

Affiliation School of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Gwynn Stevens

Current address: Cepheid, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Affiliation Human Immunology Laboratory, IAVI, London, United Kingdom

Paramesh Chetty

Affiliation Human Immunology Laboratory, IAVI, London, United Kingdom

Sabrina Welsh

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America

Annie Yang

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America

Jill Gilmour

Affiliation Human Immunology Laboratory, IAVI, London, United Kingdom

Pat Fast

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), New York, New York, United States of America

The IAVI Africa HIV Prevention Partnership

The complete membership of the author group can be found in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

Co-author Matt Price is a PLOS ONE Editorial Board member. This does not alter the authors' adherence to PLOS ONE Editorial policies and criteria.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: EK MAP SL AK EH SA GS JG P. Fast. Performed the experiments: EK SL WK AK ER P. Farmer PC. Analyzed the data: EK MAP P. Farmer. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EK SL WK AK ER. Wrote the paper: EK MAP SW AY.