About the Authors

Anne Goldzier Thomas

anne.thomas@med.navy.mil

Affiliation Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program, Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, California, United States of America

Bonnie Robin Tran

Affiliation Department of Defense HIV/AIDS Prevention Program, Naval Health Research Center, San Diego, California, United States of America

Marcus Cranston

Affiliation United States Air Force, Department of Defense, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, United States of America

Malerato Cecilia Brown

Affiliation United States President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief—Lesotho, United States Embassy, Maseru, Lesotho

Rajiv Kumar

Affiliation Indian Armed Forces, Pune, India

Matsotetsi Tlelai

Affiliation Lesotho Defence Force, Maseru, Lesotho

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. We were unable to contact Rajiv Kumar, listed as an author of this paper, to confirm his involvement in the latest version. The corresponding author, Anne Goldzier Thomas, has therefore supplied the information regarding his contribution to the manuscript and his competing interests and it is correct to the best of her knowledge. The authors are not aware of any other potential conflict of interest associated with this manuscript.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: AGT MC MCB MT. Performed the experiments: MCB RK MT. Analyzed the data: AGT BRT. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: AGT MC RBT. Wrote the paper: AGT BRT MC MCB RK MT.