About the Authors
- Renaud Becquet
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* E-mail: Renaud.Becquet@isped.u-bordeaux2.fr
Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité 897, Centre de Recherche “Epidémiologie et Biostatistique”, Bordeaux, France, Institut de Santé Publique Epidémiologie Développement (ISPED), Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France
- Milly Marston
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Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- François Dabis
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Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité 897, Centre de Recherche “Epidémiologie et Biostatistique”, Bordeaux, France, Institut de Santé Publique Epidémiologie Développement (ISPED), Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France
- Lawrence H. Moulton
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Affiliation Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
- Glenda Gray
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Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU), University of the Witwatersrand, Soweto, South Africa
- Hoosen M. Coovadia
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Affiliation HIV Management, Maternal, Adolescent and Child Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Soweto, South Africa
- Max Essex
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Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Didier K. Ekouevi
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Affiliation PAC-CI program, ANRS site in Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
- Debra Jackson
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Affiliation School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
- Anna Coutsoudis
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Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
- Charles Kilewo
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Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- Valériane Leroy
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Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité 897, Centre de Recherche “Epidémiologie et Biostatistique”, Bordeaux, France, Institut de Santé Publique Epidémiologie Développement (ISPED), Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France
- Stefan Z. Wiktor
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Affiliation RETRO-CI project, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global HIV/AIDS Program, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
- Ruth Nduati
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Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
- Philippe Msellati
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Affiliation Service de Pédiatrie, CHU Sourô Sanou, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso
- Basia Zaba
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Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Peter D. Ghys
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Affiliation UNAIDS, Epidemiology and Analysis Division, Geneva, Switzerland
- Marie-Louise Newell
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Affiliations Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, South Africa, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University College London, Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
- the UNAIDS Child survival group
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¶See the Acknowledgments section for the detailed constitution of the group.
Competing Interests
Co-author Marie-Louise Newell is an Academic Editor for PLoS ONE. 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: RB FD LM GG HMC ME DKE DJ AC CK VL SZW RN PM M-LN. Performed the experiments: RB FD LM GG HMC ME DKE DJ AC CK VL SZW RN PM M-LN. Analyzed the data: RB MM FD BZ PDG M-LN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB MM FD BZ PDG M-LN.