About the Authors

Reuben Granich

granichr@who.int

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

James G. Kahn

Affiliation Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Rod Bennett

Affiliation Huntingdon, England, United Kingdom

Charles B. Holmes

Affiliation Office of the United States Global AIDS Coordinator, Department of State, Washington, D.C., United States of America

Navneet Garg

Affiliation Vestergaard Frandsen, Lausanne, Switzerland

Celicia Serenata

Affiliation South African National AIDS Council, Johannesberg, South Africa

Miriam Lewis Sabin

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Carla Makhlouf-Obermeyer

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Christina De Filippo Mack

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

Phoebe Williams

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Louisa Jones

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Caoimhe Smyth

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Kerry A. Kutch

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Lo Ying-Ru

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Marco Vitoria

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Yves Souteyrand

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Siobhan Crowley

Affiliation HIV/AIDS Department, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

Eline L. Korenromp

Affiliations Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Public Health, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Brian G. Williams

Affiliation South African Centre for Epidemiological Modelling and Analysis, Stellenbosch, South Africa

Competing Interests

NG is employed by Vestergaard Frandsen, Lausanne and RB is an independent consultant not working for any particular company. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. 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: RG JGK RB CBH NG CS MLS CM-O CDeFM PW LJ CS KAK LY-R MV YS SC ELK BGW. Performed the experiments: RG JGK RB CBH NG CS MLS CM-O CDeFM PW LJ CS KAK LY-R MV YS SC ELK BGW. Analyzed the data: BGW RB JGK. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: RG JGK RB CBH NG CS MLS CM-O CDeFM PW LJ CS KAK LY-R MV YS SC ELK BGW. Wrote the paper: RG JGK RB CBH NG CS MLS CM-O CDeFM PW LJ CS KAK LY-R MV YS SC ELK BGW.