Table 1.

Participant characteristics: different backgrounds and institution types of the interview participants. Note that some participants had a background in several fields of science or were working for more than one institution

Scientific background	N	Institution type	N
Medicine (public health/tropical medicine)	5	Global policy-making institution	3
Virology	4	Local policy-making institution	2
Epidemiology and public health	4	Hospital	2
Psychology	2	NGO	5
Finance	1	Pharmaceutical company	1
Human rights law	1	Insurance company	1
Engineering	1	University	3
Nursing science	1
Economy	1
Business	1
Anthropology	1