About the Authors

Viviane D. Lima

vlima@cfenet.ubc.ca

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Adrian Le

Affiliation Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Bohdan Nosyk

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Rolando Barrios

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Benita Yip

Affiliation British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Robert S. Hogg

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

P. Richard Harrigan

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Julio S. G. Montaner

Affiliations British Columbia Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Division of AIDS, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Competing Interests

RSH, JSGM, and PRH have received honorariums, travel grants to attend conferences and research grants from pharmaceutical companies working in the area of HIV/AIDS. VDL, BN, RB, AL and BY declare no conflict.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: VDL PRH. Performed the experiments: RSH JSGM. Analyzed the data: VDL. Wrote the paper: VDL AL. Critical revision of the manuscript for important intellectual content: VDL AL BN PRH RSH RB BY JSGM. Statistical analysis: VDL. Obtained funding: VDL. Administrative, technical, or material support: JSGM. Study supervision: PRH JSGM.