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Article History

Received: 31 July 2017

Accepted: 26 December 2018

First Online: 7 January 2019

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: The clinical data were collected as part of routine TB and HIV services, so informed consent was not required. The study protocol was approved by the institutional bioethics committee for health of the National Institute of Health of Mozambique, with registration ID number 039/CIBS-INS/2015.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interest.

: ML is a MD, BSc, MSc working for CIOB/INS as an implementation & operations research sciences Assistant and PhD candidate at IHMT-UNL. IF is an Auxiliary Professor of Epidemiology and co-advisor of ML at IHMT-UNL. EC is a BSc working for CIOB/INS as an implementation & operations research sciences Assistant. MN is a BSc and MPH working for CIOB/INS as an implementation & operations research sciences Assistant. MROM is a Full Professor of Biostatistics, Deputy Director of IHMT-UNL and principal advisor of ML.

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