About the Authors
- Juliet Ndibazza
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Contributed equally to this work with: Juliet Ndibazza, Harriet Mpairwe, Emily L. Webb
Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda
- Harriet Mpairwe
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Contributed equally to this work with: Juliet Ndibazza, Harriet Mpairwe, Emily L. Webb
Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda
- Emily L. Webb
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Contributed equally to this work with: Juliet Ndibazza, Harriet Mpairwe, Emily L. Webb
Affiliation London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
- Patrice A. Mawa
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Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda
- Margaret Nampijja
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Affiliations Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda, Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
- Lawrence Muhangi
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Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda
- Macklyn Kihembo
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Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda
- Swaib A. Lule
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Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda
- Diana Rutebarika
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Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda
- Barbara Apule
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Affiliation Entebbe Hospital, Entebbe, Uganda
- Florence Akello
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Affiliation Entebbe Hospital, Entebbe, Uganda
- Hellen Akurut
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Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda
- Gloria Oduru
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Affiliation Entebbe Hospital, Entebbe, Uganda
- Peter Naniima
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Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda
- Dennison Kizito
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Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda
- Moses Kizza
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Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda
- Robert Kizindo
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Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda
- Robert Tweyongere
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Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
- Katherine J. Alcock
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Affiliation Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom
- Moses Muwanga
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Affiliation Entebbe Hospital, Entebbe, Uganda
- Alison M. Elliott
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* E-mail: alison.tom@infocom.co.ug
Affiliations Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom
Competing Interests
All authors have completed the Unified Competing Interest form at www.icmje.org/coi_disclosure.pdf (available on request from the corresponding author) and declare the following: the study was supported principally by funds from the Wellcome Trust, with contributions from the European Union and United Kingdom Medical Research Council; albendazole is a GlaxoSmithKline product, and albendazole and placebo were provided free of charge by GlaxoSmithKline; EW and MN were supported in part by funds from the United Kingdom Medical Research Council (MRC UK) and MRC UK supported travel costs for KA to Uganda; no author has any financial relationships with any organisations that might have an interest in the submitted work in the previous 3 years and no other relationships or activities that could appear to have influenced the submitted work. 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: AE. Analyzed the data: EW HM JN MN LM. Wrote the paper: JN EW HM MN KA AE. Contributions to design and conduct of the study: JN HM PM MN KA MM. Clinical investigations: JN HM MN SL BA FA DR. Studies on cognitive development MN KA. Sample processing and assays: PM DK PN RT M. Kihembo GO. Field work and follow up: M. Kizza RK. Data management: LM HA.