About the Authors
- Elizabeth Greene
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* E-mail: egreene@fhi360.org
Affiliation Science Facilitation Department, FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Allison Pack
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Affiliation Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
- Jill Stanton
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Affiliation Science Facilitation Department, FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Victoria Shelus
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Affiliation Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University, Washington DC, United States of America
- Elizabeth E. Tolley
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Affiliation Social and Behavioral Health Sciences, FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Jamilah Taylor
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Affiliation Social and Behavioral Health Sciences, FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
- Wafaa M. El Sadr
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Affiliation ICAP at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America
- Bernard M. Branson
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Affiliation Scientific Affairs, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Jason Leider
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Affiliation Jacobi Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America
- Natella Rakhmanina
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Affiliations Children’s National Health System, Washington DC, United States of America, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, Washington DC, United States of America
- Theresa Gamble
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Affiliation Science Facilitation Department, FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have read the journal′s policy and have the following conflicts: BMB was an employee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention during the design and data collection for this study. Since his retirement in October 2014, BMB has been selfemployed as Scientific Affairs LLC and provided ad hoc consulting services funded by the study for work related to review and revision of this manuscript. BMB also served as a consultant to Gilead Sciences, received speaking honoraria from Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics, and served as an expert witness on HIV testing. These did not in any way affect the design, conduct or presentation of results for this study, and do not alter the authors’ adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. Other coauthors declare no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceptualization: EG TG EET VS WES BMB. Data curation: EG TG. Formal analysis: EG TG AP EET JS JT VS. Funding acquisition: WES BMB TG EG. Investigation: JL NR. Methodology: EG TG EET. Project administration: EG TG VS. Resources: JL NR. Supervision: EG TG EET WES BMB. Validation: EG TG AP JS JT VS. Visualization: EG. Writing – original draft: EG. Writing – review & editing: EG AP JS VS EET JT WES BMB NR TG.