About the Authors

Elizabeth Greene

egreene@fhi360.org

Affiliation Science Facilitation Department, FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Allison Pack

Affiliation Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Jill Stanton

Affiliation Science Facilitation Department, FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Victoria Shelus

Affiliation Institute for Reproductive Health, Georgetown University, Washington DC, United States of America

Elizabeth E. Tolley

Affiliation Social and Behavioral Health Sciences, FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Jamilah Taylor

Affiliation Social and Behavioral Health Sciences, FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Wafaa M. El Sadr

Affiliation ICAP at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, New York, United States of America

Bernard M. Branson

Affiliation Scientific Affairs, LLC, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Jason Leider

Affiliation Jacobi Medical Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Natella Rakhmanina

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

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.