About the Authors

Seema Sahay

ssahay@nariindia.org

Affiliation Division of Social and Behavioral Research, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Nikhil Gupte

Affiliation Clinical Trial Unit, Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College, Pune, India

Radhika G. Brahme

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Amit Nirmalkar

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Shilpa Bembalkar

Affiliation Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, National AIDS Research Institute, Pune, India

Robert C. Bollinger

Affiliation Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, United States of America

Sanjay Mehendale

Affiliation National Institute of Epidemiology, Chennai, India

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: SS SM RCB. Performed the experiments: SS SM RGB. Analyzed the data: SS SM RCB NG RGB AN SB. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: SS SM RCB NG RGB AN SB. Wrote the paper: SS SM RCB NG RGB AN SB.