About the Authors

Sibone Mocumbi

Contributed equally to this work with: Sibone Mocumbi, Mitzy Gafos

‡ SM and MG are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliations Maputo Central Hospital (HCM), Maputo, Mozambique, Manhiça Health Research Centre (CISM), Manhiça District, Mozambique

Mitzy Gafos

Contributed equally to this work with: Sibone Mocumbi, Mitzy Gafos

m.gafos@ucl.ac.uk

‡ SM and MG are joint first authors on this work.

Affiliation Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (MRC CTU at UCL), London, United Kingdom

Khatia Munguambe

Affiliation Manhiça Health Research Centre (CISM), Manhiça District, Mozambique

Ruth Goodall

Affiliation Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (MRC CTU at UCL), London, United Kingdom

Sheena McCormack

Affiliation Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit at University College London (MRC CTU at UCL), London, United Kingdom

on behalf of the Microbicides Development Programme

MDP membership of the author group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: S. Mocumbi S. McCormack. Data curation: MG RG. Formal analysis: MG RG. Funding acquisition: S. Mocumbi S. McCormack. Investigation: S. Mocumbi KM. Methodology: S. Mocumbi S. McCormack. Project administration: S. Mocumbi KG. Supervision: S. Mocumbi S. McCormack. Visualization: MG RG. Writing – original draft: MG S. Mocumbi. Writing – review & editing: MG S. Mocumbi KM RG S. McCormack.