Asker, Bassem
Jawad, Raghad
Asreah, Rabah
Jamal, Haydar
Jassem, Ahmed
Inaya, Muslim Abdelkareem
Baker, Hiwa Abou
Kozma, Sam
Mansour, Eid
McNamara, Bryony
Miller, Ryan
Darlington, Oliver
McEwan, Phil
Sugrue, Daniel M.
Jarallah, Haidar
Funding for this research was provided by:
Gilead Sciences
Article History
Accepted: 28 June 2021
First Online: 16 August 2021
Declarations
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: Gilead Sciences provided support for this study. The funding agreement ensured the authors’ independence in designing the study, interpreting the data and preparing the manuscript for publication.
: Daniel M. Sugrue, Ryan Miller, Oliver Darlington, Bryony McNamara and Phil McEwan are employees of Health Economics and Outcomes Research Ltd. and received funding from Gilead Sciences to undertake the research outlined in this study. Sam Kozma and Eid Mansour are employees of Gilead Sciences. Bassem Asker, Rabah Asreah, Hiwa Abou Baker, Muslim Abdelkareem Inaya, Haydar Jamal, Haidar Jarallah, Ahmed Jassem and Raghad Jawad have no conflicts that are directly relevant to the content of this article.
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: All data generated or analysed during this study are included in this published article and its supplementary information files.
: The code associated with this study is proprietary.
: All authors contributed to the design of the research and ensuring the final content was reflective of the Iraq setting. DS, BM and SK led the design and implementation of the research and to the writing of the manuscript. RM contributed to the design and implementation of the research, to the analysis of the data and to the writing of the manuscript. OD and PM provided senior review and technical expertise and contributed to the design of the research and to the writing of the manuscript. EM provided senior review and contributed to the design and implementation of the research. All named authors meet the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors criteria for authorship for this manuscript, take responsibility for the integrity of the work as a whole and have given final approval to the version to be published. As the guarantor and corresponding author, DS takes full responsibility for the work as a whole, and the decision to submit and publish the manuscript.