About the Authors

Renaud Becquet

Renaud.Becquet@isped.u-bordeaux2.fr

Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité 897, Centre de Recherche “Epidémiologie et Biostatistique”, Bordeaux, France, Institut de Santé Publique Epidémiologie Développement (ISPED), Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France

Milly Marston

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

François Dabis

Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité 897, Centre de Recherche “Epidémiologie et Biostatistique”, Bordeaux, France, Institut de Santé Publique Epidémiologie Développement (ISPED), Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France

Lawrence H. Moulton

Affiliation Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

Glenda Gray

Affiliation Perinatal HIV Research Unit (PHRU), University of the Witwatersrand, Soweto, South Africa

Hoosen M. Coovadia

Affiliation HIV Management, Maternal, Adolescent and Child Unit, University of the Witwatersrand, Soweto, South Africa

Max Essex

Affiliation Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health AIDS Initiative, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Didier K. Ekouevi

Affiliation PAC-CI program, ANRS site in Côte d'Ivoire, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Debra Jackson

Affiliation School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa

Anna Coutsoudis

Affiliation Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Charles Kilewo

Affiliation Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Valériane Leroy

Affiliations Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unité 897, Centre de Recherche “Epidémiologie et Biostatistique”, Bordeaux, France, Institut de Santé Publique Epidémiologie Développement (ISPED), Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, Bordeaux, France

Stefan Z. Wiktor

Affiliation RETRO-CI project, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Global HIV/AIDS Program, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Ruth Nduati

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya

Philippe Msellati

Affiliation Service de Pédiatrie, CHU Sourô Sanou, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Basia Zaba

Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom

Peter D. Ghys

Affiliation UNAIDS, Epidemiology and Analysis Division, Geneva, Switzerland

Marie-Louise Newell

Affiliations Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Somkhele, South Africa, Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University College London, Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

the UNAIDS Child survival group

See the Acknowledgments section for the detailed constitution of the group.

Competing Interests

Co-author Marie-Louise Newell is an Academic Editor for PLoS ONE. This does not alter the authors' adherence to all the PLoS ONE policies on sharing data and materials..

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: RB FD LM GG HMC ME DKE DJ AC CK VL SZW RN PM M-LN. Performed the experiments: RB FD LM GG HMC ME DKE DJ AC CK VL SZW RN PM M-LN. Analyzed the data: RB MM FD BZ PDG M-LN. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RB MM FD BZ PDG M-LN.