About the Authors

Rupa Kanapathipillai

Affiliations Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria, Australia

Hamish McManus

Affiliation Kirby Institute, The University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia

Adeeba Kamarulzaman

Affiliation University of Malaya Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Poh Lian Lim

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore

David J. Templeton

Affiliations Kirby Institute, The University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia, RPA Sexual Health, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Matthew Law

Affiliation Kirby Institute, The University of New South Wales, Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia

Ian Woolley

ian.woolley@monash.edu

Affiliations Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria, Australia, Departments of Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Competing Interests

The Australian HIV Observational Database is partly funded by unconditional grants from Merck Sharp & Dohme; Gilead; Bristol- Myers Squibb; Boehringer Ingelheim; Roche; Pfizer; GlaxoSmithKline; Janssen- Cilag. Co-authors Matthew Law and Adeeba Kamarazulman are PLOS ONE Editorial Board members. 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

Conceived and designed the experiments: IW RK HM. Performed the experiments: HM ML. Analyzed the data: IW RK HM AK PLL DT ML. Wrote the paper: IW RK HM AK PLL DT ML.