The value of confirmatory testing in early infant HIV diagnosis programmes in South Africa: A cost-effectiveness analysis

• Lorna Dunning ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ldunning@partners.org (LD); aciaranello@partners.org (AC)

  Affiliations Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Medical Practice Evaluation Centre, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0098-2572

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• Jordan A. Francke,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Practice Evaluation Centre, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Divya Mallampati,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Rachel L. MacLean,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Practice Evaluation Centre, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Martina Penazzato,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of HIV/AIDS, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5485-8692

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• Taige Hou,

  Roles Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Practice Evaluation Centre, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Landon Myer,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, Centre for Infectious Diseases Epidemiology & Research, School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8106-7658

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• Elaine J. Abrams,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations ICAP at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Rochelle P. Walensky,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Practice Evaluation Centre, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Valériane Leroy,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Inserm, U1027, University of Toulouse 3, Toulouse, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3542-8616

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• Kenneth A. Freedberg,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Practice Evaluation Centre, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Center for AIDS Research, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Andrea Ciaranello

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ldunning@partners.org (LD); aciaranello@partners.org (AC)

  Affiliations Medical Practice Evaluation Centre, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4268-3263

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