About the Authors

Noah Kiwanuka

nkiwanuka@gmail.com

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, Uganda Virus Research Institute-International AIDS Vaccine Initiative HIV Vaccine Program, Entebbe, Uganda

Ali Ssetaala

Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute-International AIDS Vaccine Initiative HIV Vaccine Program, Entebbe, Uganda

Ismail Ssekandi

Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute-International AIDS Vaccine Initiative HIV Vaccine Program, Entebbe, Uganda

Annet Nalutaaya

Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute-International AIDS Vaccine Initiative HIV Vaccine Program, Entebbe, Uganda

Paul Kato Kitandwe

Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute-International AIDS Vaccine Initiative HIV Vaccine Program, Entebbe, Uganda

Julius Ssempiira

Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute-International AIDS Vaccine Initiative HIV Vaccine Program, Entebbe, Uganda

Bernard Ssentalo Bagaya

Affiliations Uganda Virus Research Institute-International AIDS Vaccine Initiative HIV Vaccine Program, Entebbe, Uganda, Department of Medical Microbiology, School of Biomedical Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Apolo Balyegisawa

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

Pontiano Kaleebu

Affiliations Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Insitute, Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda, Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Judith Hahn

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Christina Lindan

Affiliation Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Nelson Kaulukusi Sewankambo

Affiliation Makerere University College of Health Sciences, School of Medicine, Clinical Epidemiology Unit, Kampala, Uganda

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: NK AS NKS. Data curation: NK IS AS AN AB PKK BSB PK. Formal analysis: NK AN JS CL JH NKS. Funding acquisition: NK PK NKS. Investigation: NK IS AS AN AB PKK BSB. Methodology: NK AS IS AN. Project administration: NK AS AB. Resources: NK PKK BSB. Software: NK JS AN. Supervision: NK AS IS AN. Validation: NK IS AS NA JS PKK BSB. Visualization: NK AB AS CL JH NKS PK. Writing – original draft: NK AS NA AB BSB. Writing – review & editing: NK BSB JH CL NKS.