About the Authors

Jennifer E. Balkus

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

jbalkus@uw.edu

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America, Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Moni Neradilek

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Lee Fairlie

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Gauteng, South Africa

Bonus Makanani

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation College of Medicine-Johns Hopkins Research Project, Blantyre, Malawi

Nyaradzo Mgodi

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences Clinical Trials Research Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe

Felix Mhlanga

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation University of Zimbabwe College of Health Sciences Clinical Trials Research Centre, Harare, Zimbabwe

Clemensia Nakabiito

Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Makerere University-Johns Hopkins University Research Collaboration, Kampala, Uganda

Ashley Mayo

Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, United Stated of America

Tanya Harrell

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Vaccine and Infectious Diseases Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Jeanna Piper

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America

Katherine E. Bunge

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United Stated of America

on behalf of the MTN-042B Study Team

The complete authorship list can be found in the Acknowledgements

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.