Selamawit Alemu Woldesenbet:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5023-3561
Role: ConceptualizationRole: Data curationRole: Formal analysisRole: MethodologyRole:
Writing – original draft
Mireille Kalou: Role: ConceptualizationRole: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Dumisani Mhlongo: Role: Data curationRole: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: ValidationRole:
Writing – review & editing
Tendesayi Kufa:
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9797-616X
Role: MethodologyRole: Writing – review & editing
Makhosazana Makhanya: Role: Writing – review & editing
Adeboye Adelekan: Role: Writing – review & editing
Karidia Diallo: Role: Writing – review & editing
Mahlatse Maleka: Role: Data curationRole: Writing – review & editing
Beverley Singh: Role: Writing – review & editing
Bharat Parekh: Role: Writing – review & editing
Amanda Mohlala: Role: Project administrationRole: Writing – review & editing
Peter T. Manyike: Role: Project administrationRole: Writing – review & editing
Tim J. Tucker: Role: Project administrationRole: SupervisionRole: Writing – review & editing
Adrian J. Puren: Role: ConceptualizationRole: Funding acquisitionRole: MethodologyRole: Project administrationRole:
SupervisionRole: VisualizationRole: Writing – review & editing
Kwasi Torpey: Role: Editor
Journal ID (nlm-ta): PLoS One
Journal ID (iso-abbrev): PLoS ONE
Journal ID (publisher-id): plos
Journal ID (pmc): plosone
Title:
PLoS ONE
Publisher:
Public Library of Science
(San Francisco, CA USA
)
ISSN
(Electronic):
1932-6203
Publication date
(Electronic):
26
September
2019
Publication date Collection: 2019
Volume: 14
Issue: 9
Electronic Location Identifier: e0221906
Affiliations
[1
]
Center for HIV and STI, National Institute for Communicable Diseases, Johannesburg,
South Africa
[2
]
School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
[3
]
International Laboratory Branch, Division of Global HIV and Tuberculosis, Center for
Global Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, United
States of America
[4
]
National Clinic Laboratory Interface programme, National Health Laboratory Service,
Johannesburg, South Africa
[5
]
Laboratory Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention South Africa, Pretoria,
South Africa
[6
]
Academic Affairs, Research and Quality Assurance National Health Laboratory Service,
Johannesburg, South Africa
[7
]
Strategic Evaluation, Advisory and Development (SEAD) Consulting, Cape Town, South
Africa
[8
]
School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South
Africa
[9
]
Virology Department, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
University of Ghana College of Health Sciences, GHANA
Author notes
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author information
Article
Publisher ID:
PONE-D-19-13599
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0221906
PMC ID: 6762059
PubMed ID: 31557176
SO-VID: 77dcd0e8-f462-43f5-92c6-0e27cda89937
License:
This is an open access article, free of all copyright, and may be freely reproduced,
distributed, transmitted, modified, built upon, or otherwise used by anyone for any
lawful purpose. The work is made available under the
Creative Commons CC0 public domain dedication.
Funded by: Center for Disease control and prevention
Award ID: U2GGH001631
Award Recipient
:
Adrian J. Puren
The programme received financial support from the United States President’s Emergency
Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) through a cooperative agreement between the National
Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) [Grant Number = U2GGH001631]. The funder had no role in study design, data collection
and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The findings
and conclusions in this report are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent
the official position of the funding agencies. AJP is the principal investigator and
senior (last) author in this paper and he received this award. The URL /website of
the funder is
https://www.cdc.gov.
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