Global, regional, and national incidence and mortality for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria during 1990-2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank the countless individuals who have contributed to the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 in various capacities. We would like to acknowledge the extensive support from all staff members at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and specifically thank: Michael F MacIntyre, Peter Speyer, and Summer Lockett Ohno for their management of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013; Kelsey Pierce for her valuable assistance; Peter Speyer, James Bullard, Serkan Yalcin, Edgar Sioson, Evan Laurie, Charles Atkinson, and Andrew Ernst for their tireless support of the computational infrastructure necessary to produce the results; Linda A Ettinger for her expert administrative support; Peter Speyer, Abigail McLain, James Hancock, Marissa Iannarone, and Eden Stork for their persistent and invaluable work to gain access to and catalogue as much data as possible to inform the estimates; Stan Biryukov for his assistance with the tuberculosis database; Henry Apfel and Madeline Moyer for data extraction and processing; Christopher Margono, Michelle Subart, Lavanya Singh and Margaret Lind for assistance with galleys; Matthew M Coates, Carly E Levitz, Chelsea A Lidell, Meghan D Mooney, and Austin E Schumaker for production of all-cause mortality estimates; Amelia Bertozzi-Villa for review of Python coding of the Spectrum model. We would also like to acknowledge Mary Mahy, Keith Sabin and John Stover for sharing the UNAIDS EPP files with us and especially John Stover for responding to multiple queries regarding Spectrum. Additionally, Ibrahim Abubakar would like to acknowledge the UK National Institute for Health Research and MRC for funding. Laith J Abu-Raddad would like to acknowledge the support of Qatar National Research Fund (NPRP 04-924-3-251) who provided the main funding for generating the data provided to the GBD-IH ME effort. Gabriel Alcala-Cerra would like to acknowledge institutional support from Health Sciences and Neurosciences (CI SNEURO) Research Group. Louisa Degenhardt is supported by an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council Principal Research Fellowship (#1041742). Dr. Des Jarlais would like to acknowledge funding from NIH Grant DA R01 003574. KD is supported by a Welcome Trust Fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine [grant number 099876]. Prof. Giuseppe Remuzzi would like to acknowledge the International Society of Nephrology (ISN) for their support of his involvement in the GBD 2013. JAS is supported by grants from the Agency for Health Quality and Research Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (AHRQ CERTs) U19 HS021110, National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) P50 AR060772 and U34 AR062891, National Institute of Aging (NIA) U01 AG018947, National Cancer Institute (NCI) U10 CA149950, and research contract CE-1304-6631 from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). JAS is also supported by the resources and the use of facilities at the VA Medical Center at Birmingham, Alabama, USA. Dr. Soneji was supported by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences grant number KL2TR001088. Karen M Tabb would like to acknowledge her current support: Lemann Institute Faculty Research Grant, University of Illinois. Andrew J Vallely is supported by a Training Fellowship from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), Australia. Gelin Xu is currently funded by the Nature Science Foundation of China (NSFC, 81070922). No individuals acknowledged received additional compensation for their efforts.