Subject: GBD 2017 HIV Paper - Submitted
From: GBD Secretariat <[email-masked]>
To: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2019 00:06:59 +0000

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to report that we have submitted the manuscript,  “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and mortality of HIV from 1980 to 2017 with forecasts to 2030, for 195 countries and territories: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors (GBD) 2017 Study” to The Lancet HIV. We received over 1,100 comments and reviewed each comment on the narrative structure, methods, results, and manuscript itself, and spent significant time utilizing these comments to refine the manuscript.

The submitted version of the paper can be accessed with the following information:

Link: https://cloud.ihme.washington.edu/index.php/s/PPeNLHaJSXsjLrK

Password: GBD2017HIV

Please do not circulate this draft. You are receiving privileged access as a GBD collaborator, and any circulation or citation could jeopardize the submission review process.

Please note the following authorship information for this manuscript:

We have used general authorship under the name “GBD 2017 HIV Collaborators,” which will be replaced with a list of author names if the manuscript is accepted.

Pending the above, we will invite you to be a co-author given your specific contributions to the data, analyses, or results by sending you the final version, at which point you will be able to decide if you would like to be listed.

We will keep you updated as the paper moves through the review cycle at The Lancet HIV. Thank you again for your hard work and dedication to this global effort.

Best regards,

Chris

Christopher J.L. Murray, MD, DPhil

Director

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington

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