About the Authors

Selamawit Woldesenbet

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, 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

Mireille Cheyip

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Carl Lombard

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Samuel Manda

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

Kassahun Ayalew

Roles Writing – review & editing

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

Tendesayi Kufa

Roles 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

Adrian Puren

Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, 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

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.