About the Authors

Jessica L. Prodger

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Ronald H. Gray

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda

Brett Shannon

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Kamnoosh Shahabi

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Xiangrong Kong

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Kate Grabowski

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland

Godfrey Kigozi

Affiliation Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda

Fred Nalugoda

Affiliation Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda

David Serwadda

Affiliation Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda

Maria J. Wawer

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda

Steven J. Reynolds

Affiliations Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Department of Infectious Diseases, Baltimore, Maryland

Cindy M. Liu

Affiliations Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, Arizona

Aaron A. R. Tobian

Affiliations Rakai Health Sciences Program, Kalisizo, Uganda, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland

Rupert Kaul

rupert.kaul@utoronto.ca

Affiliation Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: RHG GK FN DS MJW CML RK. Data curation: JLP BS XK KG AART FN GK CML. Formal analysis: JLP BS XK KG. Funding acquisition: JLP RHG MJW AART RK. Investigation: KS GK FN SJR. Methodology: JLP RHG BS KS GK FN DS MJW SJR CML AART RK. Project administration: FN GK CML SJR. Resources: RHG GK FN DS MJW SJR RK. Software: JLP BS XK KG. Supervision: RHG GK FN DS MJW SJR RK. Validation: JLP BS KS GK FN SJR. Visualization: JLP AART RK. Writing – original draft: JLP. Writing – review & editing: JLP RHG BS KS XK KG GK FN DS MJW SJR CML AART RK.