About the Authors
- Albert Y. Liu
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* E-mail: albert.liu@sfdph.org
Affiliations San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Eric Vittinghoff
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Affiliation University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Deborah E. Sellmeyer
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Affiliation Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Risha Irvin
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Affiliation San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Kathleen Mulligan
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Affiliation University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Kenneth Mayer
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Affiliation Fenway Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Melanie Thompson
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Affiliation AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Robert Grant
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Affiliations University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Gladstone Institutes, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Sonal Pathak
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Affiliation Northrop Grumman, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Brandon O'Hara
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Affiliation Northrop Grumman, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Roman Gvetadze
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Affiliation Northrop Grumman, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Kata Chillag
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Affiliation Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Lisa Grohskopf
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Affiliation Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America
- Susan P. Buchbinder
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Affiliations San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
Dr. Kenneth Mayer has received educational and research grants from Gilead Sciences, the pharmaceutical company that manufactures tenofovir. Dr. Melanie Thompson's organization (AIDS Research Consortium of Atlanta) has received research grant funding from Gilead and other pharmaceutical companies and has had a prevention research consultancy with Gilead Sciences. 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: AYL EV DES SPB. Performed the experiments: AYL K. Mulligan. Analyzed the data: AYL EV DES RI K. Mulligan K. Mayer MT RG SP BO ROG KC LG SPB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: EV. Wrote the paper: AYL EV DES RI K. Mulligan K. Mayer MT RG SP BO RG KC LG SPB.