About the Authors
- Martin W. G. Brinkhof
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Contributed equally to this work with: Martin W. G. Brinkhof, Ben D. Spycher
Affiliation Division of International and Environmental Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Ben D. Spycher
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Contributed equally to this work with: Martin W. G. Brinkhof, Ben D. Spycher
Affiliation Division of International and Environmental Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Constantin Yiannoutsos
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Affiliation Division of Biostatistics, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
- Ralf Weigel
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Affiliation Lighthouse Trust at Kamuzu Central Hospital and Ministry of Health, Lilongwe, Malawi
- Robin Wood
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Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute for Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Eugène Messou
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Affiliation Programme PAC-CI, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
- Andrew Boulle
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Affiliation School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
- Matthias Egger
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* E-mail: egger@ispm.unibe.ch
Affiliation Division of International and Environmental Health, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
- Jonathan A. C. Sterne
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Affiliation Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom
- for the International epidemiological Database to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA)
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
Conceived and designed the experiments: MWB ME JACS. Performed the experiments: MWB BS. Analyzed the data: MWB BS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CTY RW RW EM AB JACS. Wrote the paper: MWB BS CTY RW RW EM AB ME JACS.