About the Authors

Juliet Ndibazza

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

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

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

Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda

Margaret Nampijja

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

Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda

Macklyn Kihembo

Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda

Swaib A. Lule

Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda

Diana Rutebarika

Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda

Barbara Apule

Affiliation Entebbe Hospital, Entebbe, Uganda

Florence Akello

Affiliation Entebbe Hospital, Entebbe, Uganda

Hellen Akurut

Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda

Gloria Oduru

Affiliation Entebbe Hospital, Entebbe, Uganda

Peter Naniima

Affiliation Uganda Virus Research Institute, Entebbe, Uganda

Dennison Kizito

Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda

Moses Kizza

Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda

Robert Kizindo

Affiliation Medical Research Council/Uganda Virus Research Institute Uganda Research Unit on AIDS, Entebbe, Uganda

Robert Tweyongere

Affiliation School of Veterinary Medicine, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Katherine J. Alcock

Affiliation Department of Psychology, Lancaster University, Lancaster, United Kingdom

Moses Muwanga

Affiliation Entebbe Hospital, Entebbe, Uganda

Alison M. Elliott

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.