About the Authors

Yazdan Yazdanpanah

yyazdan@yahoo.com

Affiliations Service Universitaire des Maladies Infectieuses et du Voyageur, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France, Avenir- Action Thématique et Incitative sur Programme, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U995, Lille, France, EA 2694, Faculté de Médecine de Lille, Lille, France

Caroline E. Sloan

Affiliation Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Cécile Charlois-Ou

Affiliation CRESGE-LEM, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique UMR8179, Lille, France

Stéphane Le Vu

Affiliation HIV/AIDS-STI-HCV Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, Institut de Veille Sanitaire, St. Maurice, France

Caroline Semaille

Affiliations EA 2694, Faculté de Médecine de Lille, Lille, France, HIV/AIDS-STI-HCV Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, Institut de Veille Sanitaire, St. Maurice, France

Dominique Costagliola

Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U943, Paris, France, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale UMR S 943, Paris, France, Université Paris 06 Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, Service des Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales, Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris, Groupe hospitalier Pitié-Salpétrière, Paris, France

Josiane Pillonel

Affiliation HIV/AIDS-STI-HCV Unit, Department of Infectious Diseases, Institut de Veille Sanitaire, St. Maurice, France

Anne-Isabelle Poullié

Affiliation Economic and Public Health Assessment Department, Haute Autorité de Santé, Saint Denis, France

Olivier Scemama

Affiliation Economic and Public Health Assessment Department, Haute Autorité de Santé, Saint Denis, France

Sylvie Deuffic-Burban

Affiliation Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale U995, Faculté de Médecine de Lille, Lille, France

Elena Losina

Affiliations Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Rochelle P. Walensky

Affiliations Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Kenneth A. Freedberg

Affiliations Division of General Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

A. David Paltiel

Affiliation Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Competing Interests

With the exception of Yazdan Yazdanpanah and Dominique Costagliola, none of the authors report any association that might pose a conflict of interest (e.g. pharmaceutical stock ownership, consultancy, advisory board membership, relevant patents, or research funding). Dr. Yazdanpanah has received travel grants, consultancy fees and honoraria for presentation at workshops from Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Glaxo-SmithKline, Merck-Sharp & Dohme-Chibret, Pfizer, Roche, Schering Plough and Tibotec. Dominique Costagliola has received travel grants, consultancy fees, honoraria and study grants from various pharmaceutical companies including Abbott, Boehringer-Ingelheim, Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Gilead Sciences, Glaxo-Smith-Kline, Janssen-Cilag, Merck-Sharp & Dohme-Chibret and Roche.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: YY CES CS EL RPW KAF ADP. Performed the experiments: CES. Analyzed the data: CCO DC SDB. Wrote the paper: YY CES ADP. Contributed to the conception and design of the study: YY CES RPW KAF ADP. Designed the model-based analysis: YY CES EL RPW KAF ADP. Interpreted results: YY CES CCO DC SDB EL RPW ADP. Drafted the article: YY CES ADP. Performed the model-based analysis: CES. Acquired data for the study: CCO DC SDB. Revised the article critically for important intellectual content: CCO SLV CS DC JP AIP OP SDB EL RPW KAF.