Ahoua, Laurence https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6565-502X
Arikawa, Shino
Tiendrebeogo, Thierry
Lahuerta, Maria
Aly, Dario
Becquet, Renaud
Dabis, Francois
Article History
Received: 17 July 2019
Accepted: 25 February 2020
First Online: 12 March 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This study was part of the ‘Identifying Optimal Models of HIV Care and Treatment’ collaboration, which was approved by the Mozambican National Ethics Committee and the Columbia University Medical Center IRB. Additional technical and administrative approval was received from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator, US Department of State. Informed consent to participate was not required, as this study was solely based on secondary data analyses of de-identified routine service delivery data. As part of the ‘Optimal Models’ Collaboration, the Columbia University IRB Committee did not consider this study to be a human subject research, as there was no interaction with subjects, no intervention, and no collection of private or identifiable information.
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.