Nordentoft, Pernille Bejer
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Engell-Sørensen, Thomas
Jespersen, Sanne
Correia, Faustino Gomes
Medina, Candida
da Silva Té, David
Østergaard, Lars
Laursen, Alex Lund
Wejse, Christian http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2534-2942
Hønge, Bo Langhoff
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institutes of Health (U01AI069919)
Institut for Klinisk Medicin, Aarhus Universitet (NA)
Article History
Received: 14 July 2016
Accepted: 25 September 2016
First Online: 14 October 2016
Compliance with ethical standards
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: The HIV cohort at the outpatient clinic was approved by the National Ethics Committee in Guinea-Bissau in 2007 (Parecer NCP/No. 15/2007). Upon inclusion, patients sign a voluntary, informed consent, using fingerprint if illiterate. The cohort has an open approval to use data from patients’ records as long as patient confidentiality is not broken. This study was approved separately by the ethical committee in Guinea-Bissau (No. Ref. 060/CNES/INASA/2013). At all times field assistants were cautious not to disclose HIV status to anyone.
: PBN has received funding from Institute of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark. WAPHIR and IeDEA supported data collection in Bissau. For the remaining authors none were declared.