Quasi-experiments to establish causal effects of HIV care and treatment and to improve the cascade of care.

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Published in Curr Opin HIV AIDS on November 01, 2015

Authors

Jacob Bor1, Pascal Geldsetzer, Atheendar Venkataramani, Till Bärnighausen

Author Affiliations

1: aDepartment of Global Health, Boston University School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA bHealth Economics and Epidemiology Research Office, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa cDepartment of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health dDepartment of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA eAfrica Centre for Health and Population Studies, Mtubatuba, South Africa.

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