About the Authors

Agnes Binagwaho

abinagwaho@gmail.com

Affiliations Ministry of Health, Kigali, Rwanda, Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Elisabetta Pegurri

Affiliation UNAIDS-Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Peter C. Drobac

Affiliations Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Partners In Health – Inshuti Mu Buzima, Kigali, Rwanda, Rwanda Biomedical Center, Kigali, Rwanda

Placidie Mugwaneza

Affiliation Rwanda Biomedical Center, Kigali, Rwanda

Sara N. Stulac

Affiliations Division of Global Health Equity, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Partners In Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Claire M. Wagner

Affiliation Global Health Delivery Partnership, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Corine Karema

Affiliation Rwanda Biomedical Center, Kigali, Rwanda

Landry Tsague

Affiliation UNICEF-Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Provided direction on the research question and context of the health sector in Rwanda: AB. Contributed to data analysis: AB. Interpreted results: AB. Drafted manuscript discussion and conclusion: AB. Developed cost-effectiveness model and matrices for data collection: EP. Ran model and sensitivity analysis: EP. Drafted methodology, findings and interpretation of results: EP. Provided revisions to discussion and conclusion: EP. Participated in justifying costing assumptions and algorithms: PCD. Reviewed and interpreted results: PCD. Drafted part of the manuscript and made revisions: PCD. Provided information and guidance on PMTCT program data: PM. Participated in review of data analysis and drafting of discussion: PM. Provided data on formula options: SNS. Contributed to drafting and review of manuscript: SNS. Contributed to review and analysis of results: CMW. Drafted manuscript discussion and conclusion: CMW. Provided revisions to manuscript: CMW. Contributed to development of research question: CK. Facilitated data collection: CK. Contributed to data analysis and manuscript drafts: CK. Conducted literature review for development of cost-effectiveness model: LT. Contributed to interpretation of results and writing manuscript background and discussion: LT. Conceived and designed the experiments: AB EP PCD PM SNS CMW CK LT. Performed the experiments: EP. Analyzed the data: AB EP PCD PM SNS CMW CK LT. Wrote the paper: AB EP PCD PM SNS CMW CK LT.