About the Authors

Nikos Pantazis

npantaz@med.uoa.gr

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

Charles Morrison

Affiliation FHI 360, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Pauli N. Amornkul

Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), San Francisco, California, United States of America

Charlotte Lewden

Affiliations Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2, ISPED, Bordeaux, France, Inserm, U897, Bordeaux, France

Robert A. Salata

Affiliation Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, United States of America

Albert Minga

Affiliation Programme PAC-CI, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire

Tsungai Chipato

Affiliation University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe

Harold Jaffe

Affiliation University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

Shabir Lakhi

Affiliation Zambia Emory HIV Research Project (ZEHRP), Lusaka, Zambia

Etienne Karita

Affiliation Project San Francisco, Kigali, Rwanda

Kholoud Porter

Affiliation Medical Research Council Clinical Trials Unit, London, United Kingdom

Laurence Meyer

Affiliation Inserm, U1018, HIV Epidemiology, Université Paris-Sud, AP-HP, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

Giota Touloumi

Affiliation Department of Hygiene, Epidemiology and Medical Statistics, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece

on behalf of CASCADE Collaboration in EuroCoord and ANRS 1220 Primo-CI Study Group

Membership of the CASCADE Collaboration in EuroCoord and ANRS 1220 Primo-CI Study Group is provided in the Acknowledgments.

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: NP GT CM PNA KP. Analyzed the data: NP GT. Wrote the paper: NP GT KP. Drafted manuscript with critical revision for important intellectual content undertaken: CM PNA CL RAS AM TC HJ SL EK LM.