About the Authors

Anitha Moorthy

Affiliation Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Amita Gupta

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

Ramesh Bhosale

Affiliation Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College, Pune, India

Srikanth Tripathy

Affiliation National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Jayagowri Sastry

Affiliation India SWEN Study Team, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Smita Kulkarni

Affiliation National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Madhuri Thakar

Affiliation National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Renu Bharadwaj

Affiliation Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College, Pune, India

Anju Kagal

Affiliation Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College, Pune, India

Arvind V. Bhore

Affiliation Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College, Pune, India

Sandesh Patil

Affiliation India SWEN Study Team, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Vandana Kulkarni

Affiliation India SWEN Study Team, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Varadharajan Venkataramani

Affiliation Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College, Pune, India

Usha Balasubramaniam

Affiliation India SWEN Study Team, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Nishi Suryavanshi

Affiliation India SWEN Study Team, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Carrie Ziemniak

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

Nikhil Gupte

Affiliation India SWEN Study Team, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Robert Bollinger

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

Deborah Persaud

dpers@jhmi.edu

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

for the India SWEN Study Team

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AM AG RB ST JS RB AK AVB SP VK VV UB NS NG BB DP. Performed the experiments: AM CLZ DP. Analyzed the data: AM AG CLZ NG DP. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AM AG RB ST JS MT RB AK AVB SP VK VV UB CLZ NG BB DP. Wrote the paper: AM AG RB ST JS RB AK AVB SP VK VV UB NS CLZ NG BB DP. HIV RNA estimation: SK.