Distance to care, enrollment and loss to follow-up of HIV patients during decentralization of antiretroviral therapy in Neno District, Malawi: A retrospective cohort study.

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Published in PLoS One on October 03, 2017

Authors

Alyssa M Bilinski1, Ermyas Birru2, Matthew Peckarsky2, Michael Herce2,3, Noel Kalanga2, Christian Neumann2, Gay Bronson2, Stephen Po-Chedley2, Chembe Kachimanga2, Ryan McBain2, James Keck2

Author Affiliations

1: Center for Infectious Disease Modeling and Analysis, Yale School of Public Health, 60 College Street, New Haven, CT 06520, USA abilinski@g.harvard.edu.
2: Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo, Neno, Malawi and Partners In Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America.
3: Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America.

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