About the Authors

Aranka Anema

aanema@cfenet.ubc.ca

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

Keith Chan

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

Yalin Chen

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

Sheri Weiser

Affiliations Division of HIV/AIDS, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America

Julio S. G. Montaner

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

Competing Interests

Julio S. G. Montaner has received educational grants from, served as an ad hoc adviser to or spoken at various events sponsored by Abbott Laboratories, Agouron Pharmaceuticals Inc., Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals Inc., Borean Pharma AS, Bristol-Myers Squibb, DuPont Pharma, Gilead Sciences, GlaxoSmithKline, Hoffmann-La Roche, Immune Response Corporation, Incyte, Janssen-Ortho Inc., Kucera Pharmaceutical Company, Merck Frosst Laboratories, Pfizer Canada Inc., Sanofi Pasteur, Shire Biochem Inc., Tibotec Pharmaceuticals Ltd. and Trimeris Inc. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter the authors′ adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Contributed specialist knowledge and critical review/feedback on manuscript drafts: SDW JSGM RSH. Conceived and designed the experiments: AA RSH. Analyzed the data: AA KC YC. Wrote the paper: AA.