Footnotes

• Handling editor Anna Maria Geretti

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• Contributors All authors contributed to the planning and writing of the editorial. The final review and edits were conducted by D-WH.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests D-WH has previously received funding from Gilead Sciences for educational activities. RD has previously received funding from Gilead Sciences and ViiV Healthcare for consultancy and educational activities. AS is co-director of Decolonising Contraception. TN has nothing to declare. UN has nothing to declare. SB-P has nothing to declare. JH has previously received funding from Gilead for consultancy activities. FL has nothing to declare. TR has received funding for project work from Gilead Sciences.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.