Onoya, Dorina http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2664-7342
Hirasen, Kamban
van den Berg, Liudmyla
Miot, Jacqui
Long, Lawrence C.
Fox, Matthew P.
Funding for this research was provided by:
USAID (674-A-12-00029, 674-A-12-00020)
Article History
First Online: 24 July 2018
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: Dorina Onoya, Kamban Hirasen, Liudmyla van den Berg, Jacqui Miot, Lawrence C. Long and Matthew P. Fox have no conflicts of interest that are directly relevant to the content of this study.
: This work was supported by the generous American people through the USAID under the terms of Cooperative Agreement 674-A-12-00020 to RTC; INROADS USAID-674-A-12-00029 to the Health Economics and Epidemiology Research Unit and to Boston University. The contents of this paper are the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the funding agencies or participating clinics or patients.
: All data were fully anonymised for analyses. Ethics approval for the retrospective data review was obtained from the Human Research Ethics Committee of the University of Witwatersrand (M140201) and the Boston University Institutional Review Board (H-29768).
: Following Sect. InternalRef removed of the recommendations regarding the provisions for waiver or alteration of the informed consent requirements under the South African Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Regulations at 45 CFR 46.116(d) and the Declaration of Helsinki, a waiver for individual patient consent was obtained.