About the Authors

Satyanarayana Ramanaik

Contributed equally to this work with: Satyanarayana Ramanaik, Martine Collumbien

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

satya@khpt.org

Affiliation Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), IT Park, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India

Martine Collumbien

Contributed equally to this work with: Satyanarayana Ramanaik, Martine Collumbien

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, London, United Kingdom

Ravi Prakash

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), IT Park, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India

Lottie Howard-Merrill

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, London, United Kingdom

Raghavendra Thalinja

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), IT Park, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India

Prakash Javalkar

Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), IT Park, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India

Srikanta Murthy

Roles Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), IT Park, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India

Ben Cislaghi

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, London, United Kingdom

Tara Beattie

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Global Health and Development, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), London, London, United Kingdom

Shajy Isac

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), IT Park, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India, Center for Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Stephen Moses

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Resources

Affiliation Center for Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Lori Heise

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, United States of America

Parinita Bhattacharjee

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Karnataka Health Promotion Trust (KHPT), IT Park, Rajajinagar, Bangalore, India, Center for Global Public Health, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Competing Interests

On behalf of all the co-authors, Satyanarayana Ramanaik declares no competing interests in this study. Our funders, namely, DFID and ViiV Healthcare, had no direct role in designing the study, data collection, analysis, preparation of the manuscript, or the decision to publish. However, technical support was provided by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and University of Manitoba while designing the study, data analysis, and preparation of the manuscript. Being ViiV Healthcare is a commercial source of funding, we declare no competing interest of ViiV Healthcare relating to employment, consultancy, patents, products in development, marketed products etc. This does not alter our adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.