Ngongondo, McNeil http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3959-3774
Rosenberg, Nora E.
Stanley, Christopher C.
Lim, Robertino
Ongubo, Dennis
Broadhurst, Richard
Speight, Colin
Flick, Robert
Tembo, Petros
Hosseinpour, Mina C.
Funding for this research was provided by:
Fogarty International Center (TW010060-01, 1R25TW009340-01, 1R25TW009340-01)
Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
Article History
Received: 22 June 2017
Accepted: 5 January 2018
First Online: 15 January 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: This analysis used routine data collected during implementation of the viral load monitoring policy at Lighthouse Trust and Martin Preuss HIV clinic. The data was retrospectively extracted from the facilities EMR system. The study was approved by the Malawi National Health Sciences Research Committee (NHSRC) and the Biomedical Institutional Review Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, United States. From these two review boards, retrospective reviews of existing programmatic data are exempt from formal consenting procedures. All data collected were de-identified prior to analysis.
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