About the Authors

Celestin Bakanda

Affiliation The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), Kampala, Uganda

Josephine Birungi

Affiliation The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), Kampala, Uganda

Robert Mwesigwa

Affiliation The AIDS Support Organization (TASO), Kampala, Uganda

Jean B. Nachega

Affiliation Department of Medicine and Centre for Infectious Diseases, Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Cape Town, South Africa

Keith Chan

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

Alexis Palmer

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

Nathan Ford

Affiliation Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

Edward J. Mills

emills@cfenet.ubc.ca

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: CB JB RM JBN KC AP NF EJM. Performed the experiments: CB JB RM JBN KC AP NF EJM. Analyzed the data: CB JB RM JBN KC AP NF EJM. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: CB JB RM JBN KC AP NF EJM. Wrote the paper: CB JB RM JBN KC AP NF EJM. Data acquisition: CB JB RM JBN KC AP NF EJM.