About the Authors

Sharifa Nasreen

snasreen@uwo.ca; drsharifa74@gmail.com

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Mostafa Shokoohi

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 Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Monali S. Malvankar-Mehta

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada, Department of Ophthalmology, Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: SN. Data curation: SN. Formal analysis: SN. Investigation: SN MS. Methodology: SN MS MSMM. Resources: SN MSMM. Supervision: MSMM. Visualization: SN. Writing – original draft: SN. Writing – review & editing: SN MS MSMM.