About the Authors

Kenneth H. Mayer

kmayer@fenwayhealth.org

Affiliation The Fenway Institute of Fenway Health and the Infectious Disease Division of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Lei Wang

Affiliation Vaccine and infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Beryl Koblin

Affiliation Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention, New York Blood Center, New York, New York, United States of America

Sharon Mannheimer

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Harlem Hospital and Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

Manya Magnus

Affiliation The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Carlos del Rio

Affiliations Department of Global Health and Emory Center for AIDS Research, Emory University Rollins School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia, United States of America, HIV Research Section San Francisco Department of Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Susan Buchbinder

Affiliation HIV Research Section San Francisco Department of Health, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Leo Wilton

Affiliation Department of Human Development, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York, United States of America

Vanessa Cummings

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Christopher C. Watson

Affiliation The Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States of America

Estelle Piwowar-Manning

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Charlotte Gaydos

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Susan H. Eshleman

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

William Clarke

Affiliation Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Ting-Yuan Liu

Affiliation Vaccine and infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Cherry Mao

Affiliation Vaccine and infectious Disease Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Samuel Griffith

Affiliation FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Darrell Wheeler

Affiliation School of Social Work, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

for the HPTN061 Protocol Team

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

¶ Membership of the HPTN 061 Protocol Team is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Performed the experiments: KHM BK SM MM CDR SB CG SHE WC CCW SG. Analyzed the data: L. Wang TY CM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: L. Wilton DW CCW EP VC CG SHE. Wrote the paper: KHM BK DW SHE L. Wang. Reviewed manuscript and offered comments and revisions: SM MM CDR SB CG WC EP CCW SG L. Wang L. Wilton.