About the Authors

Selamawit Woldesenbet

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

selamawitw@nicd.ac.za

Affiliations Center for HIV and STI, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Tendesayi Kufa-Chakezha

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Center for HIV and STI, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Carl Lombard

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Biostatistics Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa

Samuel Manda

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Biostatistics Unit, South African Medical Research Council, Pretoria, South Africa, Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa

Mireille Cheyip

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Strategic Information Unit, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Pretoria, South Africa

Kassahun Ayalew

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Strategic Information Unit, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Pretoria, South Africa

Brian Chirombo

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliation HIV and Hepatitis Program, World Health Organization, Pretoria, South Africa

Peter Barron

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Karidia Diallo

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

Bharat Parekh

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Global HIV/AIDS, International Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America

Adrian Puren

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

Affiliations Center for HIV and STI, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Virology, School of Pathology University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

Competing Interests

As an inventor of LAg-Avidity EIA, BP receives royalties from the licensing agreement with commercial partners as per policy of the U.S. Government. This doesn’t alter adherence to PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials. There are no other competing interests.