About the Authors

Sara Lodi

slodi@hsph.harvard.edu

Affiliation Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

Martin Fisher

Affiliation Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals National Health Service Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom

Andrew Phillips

Affiliation University College of London, London, United Kingdom

Andrea De Luca

Affiliation University Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital of Siena, Siena, Italy

Jade Ghosn

Affiliation Université Paris Descartes, EA 3620, Paris, France

Ruslan Malyuta

Affiliation Perinatal Prevention of AIDS Initiative, Odessa, The Ukraine

Robert Zangerle

Affiliation Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

Santiago Moreno

Affiliation Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain

Philippe Vanhems

Affiliation Edouard Herriot Hospital, Lyon, and Universite' de Lyon 1, Lyon, France

Faroudy Boufassa

Affiliation Inserm, CESP Centre for Research in Epidemiology and Population Health, U1018, Epidemiology of HIV and STI Team, Le Kremlin-Bicetre, France

Marguerite Guiguet

Affiliation INSERM and UPMC Univ Paris 06, UMR S 943, Paris, France

Kholoud Porter

Affiliation MRC Clinical Trials Unit at University College London, London, United Kingdom

for CASCADE Collaboration in EuroCoord

Membership of the CASCADE Collaboration is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

KP has received an honorarium from Tibotec. AP has received fees for consultancy for Gilead Sciences, GSK Biologicals, KP 360; speaker fees from Gilead; funds for research from BMS; Advisory Board membership with Abbvie. JG has received fees for consulting from Gilead Sciences, Bristol Myers Squibb, Merck Sharp Dohme Chibret, Janssen, Merck Sharp Dohme Chibret and Viiv. PV has received consultancy from consulting for Sanofi Pasteur. AdL has received fees for consulting from Gilead, Jansen, Siemens diagnostics, Abbott Virology and ViiV Healthcare. MF has received honoraria, speaker fees, or funding to attend conferences from: AbbVie, Bristol Myers Squibb, Gilead, Janssen, Merck, and Viiv. No other competing interests to declare. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SL MF KP. Wrote the paper: SL KP. Analysis and interpretation: SL MF AP ADL JG RM RZ SM PV FB MG KP. Obtained funding: KP. Statistical analyses: SL.