Quality of life and associated factors among HIV positive patients after completion of treatment for Cryptococcal meningitis

Jonathan Kitonsa; Julius Kiwanuka; Zacchaeus Anywaine; Sheila Kansiime; Kenneth Katumba; Namirembe Aeron; Justin Beardsley; Freddie Kibengo; Alastair Gray; Pontiano Kaleebu; Jeremy Day

doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0008983

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Quality of life and associated factors among HIV positive patients after completion of treatment for Cryptococcal meningitis

Jonathan Kitonsa ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Jonathan.Kitonsa@mrcuganda.org, jonathankitonsa@yahoo.com

Affiliation Medical Research Council / Uganda Virus Research institute & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2467-4037

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Julius Kiwanuka,

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

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Makerere University Kampala, Uganda

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9442-1719

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Zacchaeus Anywaine,

Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council / Uganda Virus Research institute & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5771-5515

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Sheila Kansiime,

Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council / Uganda Virus Research institute & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3700-1501

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Kenneth Katumba,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council / Uganda Virus Research institute & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6726-740X

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Namirembe Aeron,

Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council / Uganda Virus Research institute & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6207-7394

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Justin Beardsley,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Marie Bashir Institute, Westmead Clinical School, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1978-1559

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Freddie Kibengo,

Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council / Uganda Virus Research institute & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda
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Alastair Gray,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Health Economics Research Centre, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0239-7278

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Pontiano Kaleebu,

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Medical Research Council / Uganda Virus Research institute & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine Uganda Research Unit, Entebbe, Uganda
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Jeremy Day

Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Wellcome Trust Major Overseas Programme Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, Old Road Campus, Headington, Oxford,United Kingdom

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7843-6280

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Quality of life and associated factors among HIV positive patients after completion of treatment for Cryptococcal meningitis

Jonathan Kitonsa,
Julius Kiwanuka,
Zacchaeus Anywaine,
Sheila Kansiime,
Kenneth Katumba,
Namirembe Aeron,
Justin Beardsley,
Freddie Kibengo,
Alastair Gray,
Pontiano Kaleebu

Published: March 3, 2021
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008983

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