Lelubre, Mélanie http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4128-3583
Clerc, Olivier
Grosjean, Marielle
Amighi, Karim
De Vriese, Carine
Bugnon, Olivier
Schneider, Marie-Paule http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7557-9278
Article History
Received: 30 March 2018
Accepted: 23 October 2018
First Online: 20 November 2018
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: The protocol study was submitted to the Ethics committee of the canton of Vaud (Switzerland) but they stated that the study was exempt from authorization. A verbal consent was asked to health care professionals for focus groups, whereas participating HIV patients were asked to sign a written consent form at the hospital for the individual interview. A separate protocol was submitted to and approved by the SHCS to collect data in the SHCS database.
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: O. Bugnon is a member of the advisory board of SISPha. The other authors declare that they have no competing interests.
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