About the Authors
- Gaudensia Mutua
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Contributed equally to this work with: Gaudensia Mutua, Eduard Sanders
Affiliation Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
- Eduard Sanders
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Contributed equally to this work with: Gaudensia Mutua, Eduard Sanders
Affiliations Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya, Nuffield Department of Medicine, University of Oxford, Headington, United Kingdom
- Peter Mugo
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Affiliation Kenya Medical Research Institute, Kilifi, Kenya
- Omu Anzala
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Affiliation Kenya AIDS Vaccine Initiative, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya
- Jessica E. Haberer
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- David Bangsberg
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Affiliation Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Global Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Burc Barin
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Affiliation The EMMES Corporation, Rockville, Maryland, United States of America
- James F. Rooney
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Affiliation Gilead, Foster City, California, United States of America
- David Mark
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Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York, New York, United States of America
- Paramesh Chetty
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Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Johannesburg, South Africa
- Patricia Fast
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Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York, New York, United States of America
- Frances H. Priddy
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* E-mail: fpriddy@iavi.org
Affiliation International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, New York, New York, United States of America
Competing Interests
Burc Barin is employed by a commercial statistical group, The EMMES Corporation. James F. Rooney is employed by a commercial funder of this study, Gilead Sciences, which supplied the active drug and placebo tablets used in this study. Gilead Sciences developed and markets the drug, Truvada, used in this trial for HIV treatment. 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: FP PF ES GM JFR DB. Performed the experiments: GM ES PM OA PC DM. Analyzed the data: BB FP ES GM JH. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: JFR. Wrote the paper: FP ES GM PM JH DB BB JFR PF.