HIV Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP)—A Quantitative Ethics Appraisal

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Madzouka B. Kokolo ,

* E-mail: mkokolo@ohri.ca

Affiliation Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Programme, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Dean A. Fergusson,

Affiliations Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Programme, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, University of Ottawa at The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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D. William Cameron

Affiliations Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Programme, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, University of Ottawa at The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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It is highly plausible that the availability of a final report is related to closure status of the trials. If such a correlation exists, the results of this analysis may be biased.

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