About the Authors

Stefan Baral

sbaral@jhsph.edu

Affiliations Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Gift Trapence

Affiliation Center for the Development of People, Blantyre, Malawi

Felistus Motimedi

Affiliation Botswana Network on Ethics, Law, and HIV/AIDS, Gaborone, Botswana

Eric Umar

Affiliation Department of Community Health, University of Malawi,-College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi

Scholastika Iipinge

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Coordinator, University of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia

Friedel Dausab

Affiliation The Rainbow Project, Windhoek, Namibia

Chris Beyrer

Affiliation Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SB GT FM EU SI FD CB. Performed the experiments: GT FM EU SI FD. Analyzed the data: SB EU SI. Wrote the paper: SB CB. Acted as the Study Coordinator: FD.