From the ∗Botswana Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Gaborone, Botswana
†Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
‡Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla
§University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
¶MRC Centre for Reproductive Health, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Acknowledgments: The authors thank Cepheid for loaning the GeneXpert and provision of CT/NG kits for this study.
Conflict of Interest and Sources of Funding: This research is supported by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development R21 HD100821-01. The funding source had no role in the design and conduct of the study, data collection, analysis, reporting, and decision to submit the manuscript for publication. The authors declare no competing interests.
Author contributions: A.M. cleaned and analyzed the data, with support from A.W. A.M. wrote the first draft of the manuscript, and A.W., R.R., C.B., C.M., and J.D.K. contributed to subsequent drafts of the manuscript. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence: Aamirah Mussa, MPH, Botswana-Harvard AIDS Institute Partnership, Princess Marina Hospital, Private Bag B0 320, Gaborone, Botswana. E-mail: [email protected].
Received for publication August 30, 2022, and accepted October 25, 2022.
