About the Authors

Celestin Bakanda

Affiliation The AIDS Support Organization, Headquarters, Kampala, Uganda

Josephine Birungi

Affiliation The AIDS Support Organization, Headquarters, Kampala, Uganda

Robert Mwesigwa

Affiliation The AIDS Support Organization, Headquarters, Kampala, Uganda

Wendy Zhang

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, Canada

Amy Hagopian

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Nathan Ford

Affiliation Health Alliance International, School of Public Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America

Edward J. Mills

edward.mills@uottawa.ca

Affiliation Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: JB CB RM WZ AH NF EJM. Performed the experiments: JB CB RM WZ AH NF EJM. Analyzed the data: WZ EJM. Wrote the paper: JB CB RM WZ AH NF EJM. Other: JB CB RM WZ AH NF EJM.