Subject: LBD HIV prevalence age/sex SSA paper for review- comments due July 23, 2020
From: GBD Secretariat <[email-masked]>
To: Ketevan Goginashvili <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 18:52:25 +0000

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to share with you a preliminary version of the paper “Mapping age- and sex-specific HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa over time”, produced as part of the Local Burden of Disease (LBD) project. This paper presents estimates for age- and sex-specific HIV prevalence and the number of people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa for the years 2000-2018, modeled at a 5 × 5-km resolution and presented at the second administrative level. We aim to submit this publication to Nature.

Please send us your feedback on this manuscript before July 23, 2020.

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

To review the draft manuscript, please visit:

Cloud folder:  https://cloud.ihme.washington.edu/s/WnT4NEsWM4B6crL

Password: LBD_HIV_prev_SSA

In addition to the draft manuscript, this folder also contains:

A text document with a link to the visualization tool, with username and password

Supplementary Information

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Please note that the deadline for sending any comments is July 23, 2020.

On the date above, we will close access to the password-protected site in order to incorporate suggestions. We will be unable to incorporate any changes requested after this date, as we are moving forward with the submission. Regardless, we will review all comments in detail, and suggestions will be taken into consideration for future LBD publications.

Please note the following authorship information:

We will use general authorship under the name "Local Burden of Disease HIV Collaborators". A list of author names will replace general authorship at a later time, during the review period.

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 submission and review cycle at Nature. Thank you again for your collaboration. We look forward to improving this manuscript with your help.

Best regards,

Emily Haeuser, PhD

Research Scientist

Laura Dwyer-Lindgren, PhD

Assistant Professor

Simon I. Hay, FMedSci

Director, Local Burden of Disease

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation | University of Washington

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