Population-level HIV incidence estimates using a combination of synthetic cohort and recency biomarker approaches in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

• Eduard Grebe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eduard Grebe, Alex Welte

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

  * E-mail: eduardgrebe@sun.ac.za

  Affiliation DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7046-7245

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• Alex Welte ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Eduard Grebe, Alex Welte

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

  Affiliation DST-NRF Centre of Excellence in Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis (SACEMA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa

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• Leigh F. Johnson,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and Research (CIDER), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Gilles van Cutsem,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology and Research (CIDER), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Médecins Sans Frontières, Cape Town, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8972-4480

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• Adrian Puren,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), National Health Laboratory Service, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Tom Ellman,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Médecins Sans Frontières, Cape Town, South Africa

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• Jean-François Etard,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations TransVIHMI, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Montpellier University, Montpellier, France, Epicentre, Paris, France

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• the Consortium for the Evaluation and Performance of HIV Incidence Assays (CEPHIA) ,

  ¶Membership list can be found in the Acknowledgments section.

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• Helena Huerga

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Epicentre, Paris, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0302-9063

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