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closeErrors in Author Affiliation and Data availablity Statement
Posted by thuhad on 14 May 2015 at 21:04 GMT
Affiliation of each co-author should be read as following
Debra Jackson: School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, South Africa; and United Nations Children’s Fund, New York, United States of America
Carl Lombard and Selamawit Woldesenbet: Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
Mary Mogashoa: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Center for Global Health, Division of Global HIV/AIDS, Pretoria, South Africa
Yogan Pillay: National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa
Nathan Shaffer: National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa, 10 World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Data availability Statement should be read as following
"The data are bound by ethical and legal restrictions. To access the data of the South Africa's Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Effective study, investigators that are not part of the study team should submit a concept proposal to Thu-Ha Dinh, MD, MS (US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Principal investigator), Ameena Goga, MD, MS (South Africa Medical Research Council (MRC), Principal Investigator) and Debra Jackson (University of the Western Cape/UNICEF, Principal Investigator) for approval. Investigators with an approved concept proposal must apply for guest researcher status to obtain access to a workstation and the data. Additionally, they will need to complete data security and confidentiality training, and to sign data use and nondisclosure agreements"